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Re: Bisection results/Regression changesets useful?

Pavel Sanda
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:11:57 -0800

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 committer of the changeset the caused
> the regression, e.g. because they are most likely to understand the
> changeset?

it can help in certain cases.

> 3) Do you already do bisections on bugs, if so what tools do you use?

i do it from time to time, but its time consuming. check git bisect,
its the best tool for this kind of job i have come accross.

pavel