From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:33:54 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2012, #05; Thu, 12)
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyAsF4jNvNMKC6divzAfyVmgrHvxJtnX0fjkpp_bLHkPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Oddly, running that test in verbose mode seems to imply that it's the
> *rebase* that succeeds, not the merges in that test. Maybe I'm reading
> the test results wrong, I didn't really try to understand the test
> itself ;(

Yes, it's the rebase that succeeds. "git log -g" in the trash
directory shows that we ended up successfully rebasing J2:

  commit 5fc34ec1a8ed96664198fefc74121cd052b10861
  Reflog: HEAD@{1} (C O Mitter <committer@example.com>)
  Reflog message: rebase -i (pick): Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
  Author: A U Thor <author@example.com>
  Date:   Thu Apr 7 15:28:13 2005 -0700

      J2

while a successful test will fail that.

However, I don't actually see what changed.

Oh - one thing to note is that the *patch* of that successful rebase
is empty. That may be the big clue: we successfully finish the merge
without noticing that it didn't change any state, and we should have
failed it as an empty commit. Hmm?

                   Linus