Re: Messing with the VC history

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

John Yates writes:
 > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden>
 > wrote:

 > > Some dislike rebasing in principle or because doing it properly
 > > (as they understand it) involves running tests on all rebased
 > > commits.
 > 
 > Are they under the impression that by contrast a merge
 > absolves them of any need to run tests?

Of course not!  They know for a fact that they already ran them on the
revisions in their feature branch and on the merged code, and that the
rebased revisions will be *different* from the revisions they ran tests
on.  They object to running the tests *twice* when once should do.