Badness on the Warp

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Jun 21 17:03:03 EST 2009


Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> The fact that your bisect ended at a merge essentially means that it is 
> invalid. As a merge does not introduce any actual change (unless it 
> includes changes to resolve conflicts), it normally cannot be the cause 
> of a regression.
> 

Sort of.  You can have a "bum merge" where code conflicts logically,
even if it isn't visible as a conflict in git.  Furthermore, of course,
you can have misresolved actual conflicts.

	-hpa

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