From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:47:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git pull on Linux/ACPI release tree
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601102122001.30609@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601101151090.4939@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So having multiple bad commits is _never_ interesting.

Okay, I got it. A bug is supposed to be inherited by *all* its 
descendants. Good.

I have to keep in mind that a commit is not actually a patch set, but can 
be two or more (in case of a merge). So, a bug can be present in a 
development line for a long, long time, but be visible only after a merge. 
Since that commit can be compared to at least two trees, one of these 
diffs must show the bug.

Thanks,
Dscho