Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)
Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> writes:
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 16:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> Yet, rebasing is still routinely performed in the Linux kernel
>> development.
>
> What I find interesting and rather amusing here is Linus talking
> negatively about rebase: in particular its propensity to turn tested
> code (what you actually committed) into untested code (what you
> committed + what someelse has done, in a version of a tree no human has
> ever evaluated for correctness).
If people doesn't test and review the patches after rebasing, it looks
right but everyone is suppose to test the changes after a merging (as
for rebasing).
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