Re: bogus merges

From: Wayne Scott <wsc9tt@gmail.com>
Date: 2005-09-06 23:08:57
On 9/5/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > Really 'git commit' should detect problems like this automatically and
> > prevent them from getting in the tree.
> 
> Well, that would depend on having the fixed git-merge-base in the first
> place, which in turn would mean that such a commit wouldn't happen at all,
> so it's kind of circular. It's not worth fixing anywhere else, since once
> you fix it in git-merge-base, it just becomes a non-issue.

This just error checking to prevent future bugs from getting committed
to the tree.  These kinds of things are very hard to repair after the
fact.

-Wayne
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