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Re:Idiot Proof Git by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:16PM (#33540263)
"Why doesn't git bisect work?"

"well, it landed on this rebased commit that's huge. I guess it was a kind of useful, just not as useful as we'd like".

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Re:Idiot Proof Git by firesloth on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:42PM (#33540541)
Haha, true! On the other hand, is that better or worse than running into a string of "wip" commits that had the code in a broken state.
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Re:Idiot Proof Git by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @10:37PM (#33541885)
But if the alternative is that it's ten commits and most of them don't work anyway, the bisect takes longer to give you the same lousy information.
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Re:Idiot Proof Git by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:13AM (#33544488)
That's not the alternative, who develops like that?

It's like the first time I saw the essay calling ORM's the "vietnam of the software industry". I remember reading it and wondering who the hell would use ORM's in that manner?

Apparently a lot of people, but if you're using rebase because you don't know how to create commits that build and are functional then I submit the issue is with you.

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Re:Idiot Proof Git by idop on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:06AM (#33548468)
> That's not the alternative, who develops like that?

As an independent contractor working with many different companies, unfortunately, virtually everybody.

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