Robin Johnson: How deep can a bug go?


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Ok, so it seems that I’m blogging again a bit, but only about software bugs and treachery. Today’s post is about how I’ve burnt about 6 hours of development time, working through what seemed to be a simple bug.

Some…

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Robin Johnson: Git submodules: corner cases on updating in old branches

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I wanted to document how to deal with an annoying corner case with git-submodules here. This applies in two variations:

Changing the URL of a submodule to another tree with different ids (eg, two different git-svn…

Robin Johnson: How deep can a bug go?

robbat2.livejournal.com2 comments

Ok, so it seems that I’m blogging again a bit, but only about software bugs and treachery. Today’s post is about how I’ve burnt about 6 hours of development time, working through what seemed to be a simple bug.

Some…

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