Longing for git-bisect

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 28 22:52:11 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 18:09 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:14:51PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>  > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:20 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > 
>  > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 05:57 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > > Hm...  but that isn't going to be very finely grained if I'm
>  > > > understanding you correctly.  Basically you'd have a single commit for
>  > > > the -rc patches, etc.
>  > > 
>  > > There's a tag for every single brew build at the very least.  It's a
>  > > reasonable granularity, much finer than just once per RC.
>  > 
>  > I didn't mean Fedora RCs.  I mean the 2.6.x-rcN patches.  Since those
>  > get applied from CVS as wholesale patches rather than a series of
>  > individual commits, the granularity for rawhide kernels and git bisect
>  > would be pretty low compared to using the actually upstream git tree.
> 
> But there's a build for each of for eg..
> 
> 2.6.21-rc4
> 2.6.21-rc4-git1
> ..
> 2.6.21-rc4-git12
> 2.6.21-rc5
> 
> So the delta between git12 and rc5 is tiny.
> 
> We don't hop from one -rc to another directly, but track upstream daily.
> (or almost daily).

Oh, duh.  Yes, sorry for the noise.

Stephen, where is your script?  If you could provide it somewhere I'd be
happy to play with it.

josh




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