From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] user-manual: add advanced topic "bisecting merges" Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:19:53 +0100 Message-ID: <4732B899.6000908@viscovery.net> References: <20071104112302.GA2119@ins.uni-bonn.de> <11944722214046-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gitster@pobox.com, Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, git@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 08 08:20:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iq1gU-0004Ly-Kq for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:20:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754879AbXKHHT6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 02:19:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754403AbXKHHT6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 02:19:58 -0500 Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at ([212.33.55.23]:51080 "EHLO lilzmailso01.liwest.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751552AbXKHHT5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 02:19:57 -0500 Received: from cm56-163-160.liwest.at ([86.56.163.160] helo=linz.eudaptics.com) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtpa (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1Iq1fi-0000mC-2N; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:19:26 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (J6T.linz.viscovery [192.168.1.42]) by linz.eudaptics.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6F96B7; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:19:53 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <11944722214046-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> X-Spam-Score: 1.7 (+) X-Spam-Report: ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_99=3.5 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Steffen Prohaska schrieb: > +If you linearize the history by rebasing the lower branch on > +top of the upper, instead of merging, the bug becomes much easier to > +find and understand. Your history would instead be: At this point I'm missing the words The solution is ... I.e.: The solution is to linearize the history by rebasing the lower branch on top of the upper, instead of merging. Now the bug becomes much easier to find and understand. Your history would instead be: -- Hannes