From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:27:09 GMT Subject: Re: git pull for update of netdev fails. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060920212101.GA24415@spearce.org> Hi, On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Another, even more serious problems with rebasing: You can introduce a bug > > by rebasing. Meaning: git-rebase can succeed, even compilation is fine, > > but the sum of your patches, and the patches you are rebasing on, is > > buggy. And there is _no_ way to bisect this, since the "good" version can > > be gone for good. > > True, however one would hope that you tested the commit before you > rebased it and found it to working. And bisect should point at the > new version of that commit as the break. And then you can debug > it there. You misunderstood me. You can _introduce_ a bug by rebasing. _After_ testing that everything is fine. You can even test the rebased branch and miss the bug, since your original tests were more thorough. Ciao, Dscho