Postmortem: Squash-Merge Made HEAD~1 Target Unrelated Code
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The durable fix is a locked merge-base, not HEAD~1 . An agent that infers the review parent from git heuristics can patch the wrong tree. This reconstructed incident shows how that miss ships a green no-op. What Failed A coding agent received a follow-up task after a squash-merge. It treated HEAD~1…
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- 2026-09-16 04:24 · DEV Community — AI
Postmortem: Squash-Merge Made HEAD~1 Target Unrelated Code