From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8313 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2019 17:45:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 7982 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2019 17:45:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=crew X-HELO: snark.thyrsus.com Received: from thyrsus.com (HELO snark.thyrsus.com) (71.162.243.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:45:02 +0000 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B13CC4704E5D; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:45:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:45:00 -0000 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Joseph Myers Cc: "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" , Jonathan Wakely , Jason Merrill , Segher Boessenkool , Jeff Law , GCC Development Subject: Re: Commit messages and the move to git Message-ID: <20191205174500.GA129483@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com References: <632176b4-0ff6-1389-1576-138700ea900b@arm.com> <61f83d0b-bc85-3479-3cdd-d56323c033c7@arm.com> <20191205171006.GC3526@thyrsus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 Joseph Myers : > I just tried a leading-segment load up to r14877, but it didn't reproduce > the problems I see with r14877 in a full repository conversion - it seems > the combination with something later in the history may be necessary to > reproduce the issue. Great :-( Well, there's a bisection-like strategy for finding the minimum leading segment that produces misbehavior. My conversion crew will apply it as hard as we need to to get the job done. -- Eric S. Raymond