On 31 October 2012 15:01, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > Thanks! In general, do not rebase a branch unless you were able to test > the rebase fully. Use "git merge" instead. This does not apply to > people without commit access (unless they use pull requests---perhaps we > should use them more), but it is easy for you. > > If you hadn't rebased the series, "git bisect" would have pointed out > that the original series worked, and that the merge was the problem.
I don't think this actually gains us anything, because we've still checked broken code into master, whether it was via a rebase or a merge. The correct answer is "test your commits before sending them", surely? -- PMM