Re: Emacs git repo mangled

[Stefan Monnier]

Andreas Schwab [2022-10-31 19:33:13] wrote:
> On Okt 31 2022, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Nothing's wrong: the Git history looks fine to me.
>> The problem is fundamental to `git bisect` (which starts from the
>> assumption that the history is linear, which is a lie).
> That's not true.  Bisection handles nonlinear history very well.

I did not say it doesn't handle nonlinear history well.  I said it
assumes that the history is linear (it's inherent to the notion of
"bisecting").  Indeed, in practice the way Git turns the non-linear
history into a linear pseudo-history usually works very well.
But there are no miracles.


        Stefan