John McCabe-Dansted
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:53:25 -0800
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/22241 and found that 22241 stopped including the math-macros from the parent file, but seemed to still count those macros in the parent file.
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? 2) Does it help to include the committer of the changeset the caused the regression, e.g. because they are most likely to understand the changeset? 3) Do you already do bisections on bugs, if so what tools do you use? -- John C. McCabe-Dansted