From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Brinkhoff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Messing with the VC history Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:18:59 +0100 Organization: nocrew Message-ID: <85ppcl6knw.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> References: <87k32vsm8u.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83fvdjdv8t.fsf@gnu.org> <871tp3rv07.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhnavhz9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ioiev7bp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416295184 31632 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2014 07:19:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 07:19:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 08:19:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqd4b-0006Dp-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:19:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqd4a-0003Rf-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqd4J-0003Qf-6X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:19:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqd4B-0002FL-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49545) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqd4B-0002FD-HX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqd4A-00069b-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:19:10 +0100 Original-Received: from c-4957e555.012-14-67626717.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([85.229.87.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:19:10 +0100 Original-Received: from lars by c-4957e555.012-14-67626717.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:19:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-4957e555.012-14-67626717.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LQ1do6C1LfClNpV8h1aVRVSiYac= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177520 Archived-At: Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > John Yates wrote: > > Stephen J. Turnbull 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. I've met some of those. Is there a counterargument?