Re: [PATCH] fixup! worktree move: new command

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Junio,

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The tip of 'pu' (or anything beyond the tip of 'jch') is not always
> expected to pass test or even build, [...]

This makes `pu` a lot less useful than it could be.

And we could easily improve the situation simply by changing the rule ever
so slightly: when a build, or a test, fails in `pu` and there exists a
fix, this fix should go into `pu` ASAP.

As you point out later in your mail, the fixup! or SQUASH! commit is a
very convenient reminder that a particular branch is still "under
construction". That is, changing the rule as I proposed above will not
only help the Continuous Integration [*1*] to avoid reporting duplicates,
it will also help us improve the project faster.

Ciao,
Johannes

Footnote *1*: It appears that there may be the misconception floating
around that Continuous Integration is designed to annoy developers by
pointing out unportable or unbuildable code. Once you realize, though,
that it detects and reports code that is below our existing code's
quality, no doubt you will agree that it is a convenient tool to relieve
reviewers from tedious work that can be done by a machine as well.