Re: Making it easier to find which change introduced a bug

2005-07-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > Linus, do you think we could have something like > patch-2.6.13-rc4-incremental-broken-out.tar.bz2 that could like Andrew's > be placed into patches/ in a tree? Not really. The thing is, since the git patches really _aren't_ serial, and merging

Re: Making it easier to find which change introduced a bug

2005-07-30 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > > We need a super-easy way for people to do bisection searching. > > First step would be to make interdiffs available as quilt patchsets. > > If we had this for e.g. 2.6.13-rc3 -> rc4 it would make tracking down > those new bugs much easier. > > (Yes I know git does bisection but Andrew s

Making it easier to find which change introduced a bug

2005-07-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 at 22:54:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > We need a super-easy way for people to do bisection searching. First step would be to make interdiffs available as quilt patchsets. If we had this for e.g. 2.6.13-rc3 -> rc4 it would make tracking down those new bugs much easi