On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>
wrote:

> Many Emacs developers, including
> several frequent committers, are uninterested in learning enough about
> VCS to deal with these issues.  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?

/john