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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>I didn't change anything!</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="next" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html" title="I see no X here."/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">I didn't change anything!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../I.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="I-didn-t-change-anything-"/><dt xmlns="" id="I-didn-t-change-anything-"><b>I didn't change anything!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">interj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression
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test. The <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> reply to this assertion is
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“<span class="quote">Then it works just the same as it did before, doesn't it?</span>”
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See also <a href="../O/one-line-fix.html"><i class="glossterm">one-line fix</i></a>. This is also heard from
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applications programmers trying to blame an obvious applications problem on
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an unrelated systems software change, for example a divide-by-0 fault after
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terminals were added to a network. Usually, their statement is found to be
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false. Upon close questioning, they will admit some major restructuring of
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the program that shouldn't have broken anything, in their opinion, but
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which actually <a href="../H/hosed.html"><i class="glossterm">hosed</i></a> the code completely.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../I.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">I </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> I see no X here.</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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