Re: Messing with the VC history

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> John Yates wrote:
>  > Stephen J. Turnbull 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.

I've met some of those.  Is there a counterargument?