Longing for git-bisect

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Mar 28 22:09:31 UTC 2007


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).

	Dave

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