From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Messing with the VC history Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:23:22 +0900 Message-ID: <87ioiev7bp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87k32vsm8u.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83fvdjdv8t.fsf@gnu.org> <871tp3rv07.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhnavhz9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416194628 17259 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 03:23:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , Emacs developers To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 04:23:41 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 1XqCui-0004U0-6y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:23:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqCuh-0007iP-QN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51593) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqCua-0007Zp-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqCuU-0003VM-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:23:32 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:46955) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqCuU-0003VI-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:23:26 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD8FB1C396B; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:23:22 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C4A6E1A2844; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:23:22 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:177380 Archived-At: John Yates writes: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:33 PM, 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.