Clean Merge, Wrong Patch: Re-Validating an OSS Contribution After Upstream Moves
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A contributor opens a parser fix, waits eleven days for review, and watches upstream refactor the very function the patch touches. The rebase produces no conflict, the test suite stays green, and the second review round takes four minutes. The merged code is still wrong, because the assertion was p…
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Clean Merge, Wrong Patch: Re-Validating an OSS Contribution After Upstream Moves