alt Hacker NewsIndeed. And plenty of successful merges end up with code that won't compile.
FWIW I've struggled to get AI tools to handle merge conflicts well (especially rebase) for the same underlying reason.
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skydhash • today at 6:01 PM
I'm surprised to see that some people sync their working tree and does not evaluate their patch again (testing and reviewing the assumptions they have made for their changes).
Code not compiling is still the good case, because you’ll notice before deployment. The dangerous cases are when it does compile.