Hi Joel, On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Joel Madero <jmadero....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 12/01/2015 02:59 AM, Pedro wrote: >> Hi Joel >> >> >> jmadero wrote >>>> If a user is able to tell that a bug was introduced between 4.0.0 and >>>> 4.0.1, >>>> a bibisect in that range should be able to find the problematic >>>> commit/patch? >>>> What would be the advantage to have the user install 4.0.0 Beta1, Beta2, >>>> RC1, etc? >>> Bibisect is really only at this point useful for Linux because the >>> documentation on OSX and Windows is still below par. That's at least my >>> understanding - have you tried to bibisect on other platforms? >> No, I never tried bibisect on Windows. But Sophie volunteered to give me a >> hand if I decided to try so I assume it is possible. >> >> Again, what would be the advantage to have the user install 4.0.0 Beta1, >> Beta2, RC1, etc? Reducing the search range to a 0.0.1 isn't good enough? >> Does the full footwork have to be on the QA side? > The benefit is narrowing it down by hundreds of commits....have you ever > looked at how many commits are between two alphas? Or between two point > releases? If we're sitting here screaming and yelling about regressions, > the more we narrow down the more likely regressions will be dealt with. > > Example (commits between...): > 5.0.0.1 beta1 and 5.0.0.5 release: 357
you mixed nomenclature here it seems. $ git log --oneline libreoffice-5.0.0.0.beta1..libreoffice-5.0.0.5 |wc -l 815 so 815 commits between 5.0.0 beta1 and 5.0.0 final 357 is the commit count between first RC and final $ git log --oneline libreoffice-5.0.0.0.beta1..libreoffice-5.0.0.5 |wc -l 815 x.y.z.0… → LibreOfficeDev (alpha and beta), x.y.z.1… → first RC, in release mode (LibreOffice) > 5.0.0.3 and 5.0.0.4 beta2: 42 between rc3 and rc4 As long as the merge-to-one-version indicates what version was set prior to the unification, I don't see the information loss, but it should be a standardized comment, so that you could still use queries for those versions. ciao Christian _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/