From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19771 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2011 13:16:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 19539 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Mar 2011 13:16:34 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (HELO mailout-de.gmx.net) (213.165.64.22) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:16:28 +0000 Received: (qmail 27823 invoked by uid 0); 14 Mar 2011 13:16:25 -0000 Received: from 131.220.223.4 by www168.gmx.net with HTTP; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:16:23 +0100 (CET) Cc: Jan Beulich , "H.J. Lu" , binutils@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:16:00 -0000 From: "Ralf Wildenhues" In-Reply-To: <20110314122342.GA26825@elte.hu> Message-ID: <20110314131623.119020@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20110311165802.GA3508@intel.com> <4D7A64670200007800035F4C@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4D7DE39302000078000362E6@vpn.id2.novell.com> <20110314095534.GB18058@elte.hu> <20110314104131.GG6275@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20110314122342.GA26825@elte.hu> Subject: git bisect plus fixes (was: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]) To: Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org X-Mutt-Fcc: =git X-Mutt-References: <20110314122342.GA26825@elte.hu> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00268.txt.bz2 [ adding the git list; this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/52601/focus=1112779 ] Hello, * Ingo Molnar wrote on Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:23:42PM CET: > Also, i hope you are not suggesting to break projects just because > they are not important to you personally? The fix is exceedingly > simple to do for the binutils project - and impossible to do for the > kernel project (because during bisection - which is a very powerful > debugging tool - older versions of the source get checked out). FWIW, I don't have an opinion on this particular binutils issue, but it would be very helpful if 'git bisect' made it easy to denote "when going back, you might also need some of these changes". (I'd just use a patch -p1 with a here-file in the bisect script, but that might not be enough for all practical use cases.) This issue has come up several times with high-profile issues. Thanks, Ralf