Am 18.10.2011 10:45, schrieb Damjan Jovanovic: > This tool compiled all 35000 or so commits from Wine 1.0 to around 4th > October 2011 in only 7 days, generating a Git repository of Wine binaries > that's only 26 gigabytes in size. Regression testing with binaries is a > pleasure: it takes only a few seconds :-) on each bisection. I bisected a 16 > step regression in just 20 minutes, and most of that time was spent running > the application and dealing with 2 X-server crashes.
I already love it. > I haven't figured out how to make the binaries available to users. Few users > can clone a 26 gigabyte repository, and even fewer places can serve that much > to multiple users. Maybe Git can compress it further? The other idea I had is > that users should be able to regression test through a GUI tool. Maybe the > GUI tool can just download and run the +/- 122 MB binary snapshots for > specific commits, instead of having the entire binary repository locally? tried compressing the .git directory. or maybe "git gc" can help > Would you like to see this tool? Can I send an attachment with it? If the tool is not too big and is textual, why not -- Best Regards, André Hentschel
