From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] automatically skip away from broken commits Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:11:35 -0700 Message-ID: <4A2E7BA7.8000901@zytor.com> References: <20090606043853.4031.78284.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <7vskidcf9s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <200906070932.36913.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <4A2CAA56.1030707@zytor.com> <7vws7n6vcf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4A2D337C.70203@zytor.com> <7vzlcixwue.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christian Couder , Junio C Hamano , Christian Couder , git@vger.kernel.org, Sam Vilain , Ingo Molnar To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 09 19:55:05 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ME5XN-0000FL-4x for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:55:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756106AbZFIRy4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:54:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754907AbZFIRyz (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:54:55 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60017 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754535AbZFIRyz (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:54:55 -0400 Received: from mail.hos.anvin.org (c-98-210-181-100.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.210.181.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n59FBcV0012395 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:11:57 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (tazenda.hos.anvin.org [172.27.0.16]) by mail.hos.anvin.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n59FBcxR016870; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:11:38 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tazenda.hos.anvin.org (8.14.3/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n59FBZin001260; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:11:35 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/9442/Tue Jun 9 05:14:26 2009 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > > By the way, I have asked question about best algorithm for "bisect skip" > on StackOverflow[1], but didn't get (yet) any good responses... > > [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/959324/ > I don't think there is a "best" algorithm, but I concur with the poster that said broken commits tend to cluster. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.