Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
Ingo Molnar wrote:
for example git-bisect was godsent. I remember that years ago bisection of
a bug was a very laborous task so that it was only used as a final,
last-ditch approach for really nasty bugs. Today we can autonomouly bisect
build bugs via a simple shell command around "git-bisect run", without any
human interaction! This freed up testing resources
..
It's only a godsend for the few people who happen to be kernel developers
It's also godsend for users who want a regression they observe fixed.
If you can tell which patch broke it you often turned a very hard to
debug problem into a relatively easy fixable problem.
..
Oh yes, definitely. When that use happens to be a kernel dev + git user,
it saves the *fool who broke it* a hell of a lot of time, because they can
slough it off onto the poor bloke who notices it.
Mind you, no arguing that this is effective when that poor bloke
has a day free to download the git-tree and build/reboot a dozen times.
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