Re: git pull for update of netdev fails.

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Hi,

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Another, even more serious problems with rebasing: You can introduce a bug 
> > by rebasing. Meaning: git-rebase can succeed, even compilation is fine, 
> > but the sum of your patches, and the patches you are rebasing on, is 
> > buggy. And there is _no_ way to bisect this, since the "good" version can 
> > be gone for good.
> 
> True, however one would hope that you tested the commit before you
> rebased it and found it to working.  And bisect should point at the
> new version of that commit as the break.  And then you can debug
> it there.

You misunderstood me. You can _introduce_ a bug by rebasing. _After_ 
testing that everything is fine. You can even test the rebased branch and 
miss the bug, since your original tests were more thorough.

Ciao,
Dscho

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