Re: Bisection results/Regression changesets useful?

2010-02-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > I have a few questions. > 1) Should I do a bisection on essentially every regression I find, it can help in certain cases. > and/or are there specific bugs that you would like me to perform a > bisection on? for example #6496 > 2) Does it help to include the committ

Re: Bisection results/Regression changesets useful?

2010-02-06 Thread rgheck
On 02/06/2010 02:24 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: John McCabe-Dansted schreef: 3) Do you already do bisections on bugs, if so what tools do you use? Usually it is clear in which piece of the code the bug is, then "svn blame" can help you. Apart from that, our memory of what has been chan

Re: Bisection results/Regression changesets useful?

2010-02-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
John McCabe-Dansted schreef: I have a few questions. 1) Should I do a bisection on essentially every regression I find, and/or are there specific bugs that you would like me to perform a bisection on? I don't know what to answer here. It's often easy to find out what change caused the bug, bu

Bisection results/Regression changesets useful?

2010-02-05 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I can usually generate bisection reports for the bugs I find using cache-bisect.py. For example, I tracked down   http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6502   Math-macros and Parent documents lead to LaTeX Errors Dialog highlighting wrong line. to the revision r22241   http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/22