Re: spurious fail of git merge after rebasing

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On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:45:12AM +0200, D. A. van Delft wrote:

> Point is, I have found a scenario where sometimes git fails on 
> a specific merge.
> Each time I start with the same identical git repository 
> (archived once and restored each time before a run) and run 
> the same fixed series of rebases and merges on it. Once in a 
> while it fails with a merge conflict, sometimes at first try, 
> sometimes after 10+ times. I have a canned set of testcases 
> which reproduces this behaviour. I have also narrowed it down 
> somewhat on how to work around, or prevent it from occurring. 
> 
> However, given that it doesn't always fail or succeed, is 
> unexpected.

Yeah, git should generally be deterministic. Can you show us your test
case?

-Peff
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