From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760154AbXKMRu0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:50:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757763AbXKMRuM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:50:12 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1714 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755581AbXKMRuK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:50:10 -0500 Message-ID: <4739E3D0.10201@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:50:08 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , David Miller , protasnb@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs References: <20071113031553.3c7b5c16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.033946.114918709.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113034916.2556edd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.035824.40509981.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113041259.79c9a8c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113134029.GA30978@elte.hu> <4739AFE0.20705@rtr.ca> <20071113164650.GA28493@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20071113164650.GA28493@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 and who happen to already use git. It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone else. -ml