Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If you linearlize the history by rebasing the lower branch on > top of upper, instead of merging, the bug becomes much easier to > find and understand. Your history would instead be: > > ---Z---o---X'--...---o---A---o---o---Y'--...---o---B'--D' > > and there is a single commit Y' between A and B' that introduced > the new calling site that still uses the new semantics of the > function that was already in A. "git show Y'" will be a much > smaller patch than "git diff A C" and it is much easier to deal > with. Typo. Y' uses "the old semantics of the function, even though that was already modified at X'". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
