linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <7766.1201317556@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:19:16 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@...eee.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:50:44 +0100, Stefan Richter said:
> How often is "bisectability" being broken already before merge in
> subsystem trees, and how often only in the context of the merge result?

I don't bisect git trees often - but I'd say that at least half the time
I have to bisect -mm, I'll hit a busticated bisection point and need to
move several one way or another.  Fortunately, Andrew does a good job
of keeping fixes near their parents, so it's usually not *that* hard to
clean up (at least for me - but I recently realized that I had passed the
3-decade mark of breaking and fixing software).  Newcomer kernel testers
are likely in for a rude awakening if they hit one of those points.

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