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		Beltalowda on Nov 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Extremely Linear Git History > Merge commits are prone to introduce unexpected and uncaught bugs: rebases just don't. How so? If I make an error with a rebase then I risk losing my changes. You can fetch it from the local reflog, but that's not so easy. With a merge I have a merge commit which records what was merged.

couchand on Nov 23, 2022 [–]

We're talking past each other. You're describing issues that come up during the git workflow. I'm talking about production bugs.

Beltalowda on Nov 23, 2022 | [–]

You're being quite cryptic in this entire thread and I to be honest I have no idea what you're talking about any more.

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