On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
>
> Rather than making the patch a simple diff of the trees, make the patch a cat
> of the individual patches/commits (preferably with descriptions) that got
> applied, in the order they got applied.
>
> This makes the patch bigger, but it also means that bisect can be done with
> vi, simply by truncating the file at the last interesting patch and applying
> the truncated version to a clean tree. Since patch applies hunks in order
> and sifts out hunks from description already...
>
> Is this a viable option?
No.
There is no "ordering" in a distributed environment. We have things
happening in parallel, adn you can't really linearize the patches.
The closest you can get is "git bisect", which does the right thing.
Linus
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