From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Messing with the VC history
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:23:22 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioiev7bp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXojgRdM9VGfAQREfehZ5HvPpYRBEAL21SdGW_wvvWkp=7A@mail.gmail.com>
John Yates writes:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>
> wrote:
> > Some dislike rebasing in principle or because doing it properly
> > (as they understand it) involves running tests on all rebased
> > commits.
>
> Are they under the impression that by contrast a merge
> absolves them of any need to run tests?
Of course not! They know for a fact that they already ran them on the
revisions in their feature branch and on the merged code, and that the
rebased revisions will be *different* from the revisions they ran tests
on. They object to running the tests *twice* when once should do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-17 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-16 6:17 Messing with the VC history Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-16 8:19 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-16 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-16 16:00 ` David Engster
2014-11-17 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-16 16:33 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-16 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-22 10:04 ` Steinar Bang
2014-11-16 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-16 16:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-16 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-16 23:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-17 1:31 ` John Yates
2014-11-17 3:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-11-18 7:18 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2014-11-18 7:42 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-18 7:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-18 8:41 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-18 16:47 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-11-18 17:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-18 22:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-19 2:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-17 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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