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From: Wayne Scott <wsc9tt@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bogus merges
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 08:08:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59a6e58305090606082a23b048@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509050853080.3568@evo.osdl.org>

On 9/5/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > Really 'git commit' should detect problems like this automatically and
> > prevent them from getting in the tree.
> 
> Well, that would depend on having the fixed git-merge-base in the first
> place, which in turn would mean that such a commit wouldn't happen at all,
> so it's kind of circular. It's not worth fixing anywhere else, since once
> you fix it in git-merge-base, it just becomes a non-issue.

This just error checking to prevent future bugs from getting committed
to the tree.  These kinds of things are very hard to repair after the
fact.

-Wayne

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-05 14:38 bogus merges Wayne Scott
2005-09-05 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-06 13:08   ` Wayne Scott [this message]
2005-09-11 11:06     ` Russell King
2005-09-06 18:28   ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-09-11 11:01     ` Russell King
2005-09-11 18:08       ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-09-12  0:58         ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-11 10:21   ` Russell King
2005-09-11 11:48     ` Martin Langhoff
2005-09-11 15:11       ` A Large Angry SCM
2005-09-11 18:36         ` Russell King
2005-09-11 18:00       ` Russell King

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