Steffen Prohaska schrieb:
On Nov 8, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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:
Hmm. It might be a solution if you did not publish history.
This is about finding the commit that introduced a bug. Once you found it,
better: you know how to fix the bug, you are expected to throw away the
rebased branch, not to publish it! Maybe a note along these lines could be
appended:
Now that you know what caused the error (and how to fix it), throw away the
rebased branch, and commit a fix on top of D.
-- Hannes
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