On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 13:44 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Eg, consider these flights:
> 
>   100  is now master  A pass, B pass      pushed
>   200  staging        A pass, B fail      `B REGR. vs 100'
>   201  staging        A fail, B not run   `B fail in 200 REGR. vs 100'
> 
> In flight 201, the failure of A is indeed justifiable as a heisenbug
> because it can be seen to succeed in flight 200.  It is the problem
> with B which is actually blocking the push - it is merely that the
> failure occurred in flight 200.

This example really helped clarify things for me, thanks.

I don't know if this is the sort of thing which could fit into a doc
somewhere (maybe README.email could have some of these kinds of worked
examples?)


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