From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Yates Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Messing with the VC history Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:31:16 -0500 Message-ID: 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: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1139cd964b5d6c050803efdc X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416187892 18121 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 01:31:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= , Emacs developers To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 02:31:26 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 1XqBA3-00007C-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:31:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45656 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqBA2-0002yq-Tl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:31:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqB9y-0002yg-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:31:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqB9x-0006Er-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:31:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yk0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22e]:48012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqB9w-0006Em-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:31:17 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-yk0-f174.google.com with SMTP id 10so747533ykt.5 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:31:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=cMqjreSzusJ7TVB8mI11yxS3YV6oxK5QpGVOMweQ2O8=; b=TV2Oj5LPepe1PB0LnaMRrxOwoIiXnQU3T76cJQApgsg1q8hcjHo/ocsjjANRffk4Kz dPYZ1bm0ewswO3PnXm9Cx/3yWUqwqbEf+MCwr+afR3OV8o/BUdPhhyaneUE/csmaJc1X hc7rMyOjM0n3ElMJjziI+dBL7iHwbuZuLoZ7Wj1snyLXSKFgbw9PSoZ7Dl8DKg7NQQ0V 0ZO13qG/1a21tFgpIn9mKLcQoqBv6uBNbuXeOBnrz3deg3evfra/SQOwYaE/93h+Lyv3 2NCZIwX/SjV8iURWgS6FYzDp/cE52mM5H6z0x3AMd57BvN9rA6SYZu3Iu+Rah8wsArb8 CPiw== X-Received: by 10.170.47.210 with SMTP id 201mr10885049ykp.30.1416187876162; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:31:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.170.200.3 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:31:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87lhnavhz9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-Google-Sender-Auth: FMNYG7DsC5H98q_VxtRtL9MGHTc X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22e 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:177372 Archived-At: --001a1139cd964b5d6c050803efdc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull 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 --001a1139cd964b5d6c050803efdc Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On S= un, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org&= gt; wrote:
Many Emacs developers, = including
several frequent committers, are uninterested in learning enough about
VCS to deal with these issues.=C2=A0 Some dislike rebasing in principle or<= br> 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 an= y need to run tests?

/john=C2=A0

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