On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 13:54 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > This safety catch is unnecessary and unhelpful. > > It is unnecessary because 489773b4 "Detect flailing" will detect > attempts by the bisector to repeatedly run the same flight and hope > for different results. > > It is unhelpful because it can happen for good reasons that a > particular revision has been tested many times. In particular: > > - The osstest push gate input tree may have not been advanced for a > long time and been failing its push gate. > > - The bisector may have (for some reason[1]) restarted with a new > baseline, and the temporarally-stripy pass/fail requirement would > then require the basis fail to be repro'd, again. > > [1] Currently this happens much more often than is desirable. This > will be fixed in a moment. > > This reverts commit 2676277181599a889657354028b992379aa6142b.
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