On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:35:05PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > Wait, what do you mean by "non-rebaseable"? I think you mean
> > "non-bisectable" right?
>
> I mean, the branch will not be rebased to fixup errors in the middle.
> Like the Linus' tree, and the tip/net trees. For these branches that
> cannot afford to rebase, bug fixes always get appended rather than get
> folded into the buggy commit.
>
> For the non-rebaseable branches, I'll first build test the branch HEAD,
> and iff it has build errors, go back to locate the first commit that
> introduces the errors. This way, it can avoid sending out pointless
> warnings about known bugs that are eventually fixed up in the HEAD.
None of my trees and branches should ever be rebased, unless something
really wrong goes on. I think I've only had to ever do this once, for
one branch, in the past years that I've been doing this.
greg k-h
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