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SubjectRe: Badness on the Warp
Frans Pop wrote:
>
> The fact that your bisect ended at a merge essentially means that it is
> invalid. As a merge does not introduce any actual change (unless it
> includes changes to resolve conflicts), it normally cannot be the cause
> of a regression.
>

Sort of. You can have a "bum merge" where code conflicts logically,
even if it isn't visible as a conflict in git. Furthermore, of course,
you can have misresolved actual conflicts.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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