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To: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+tools@mega-nerd.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Balazs Attila-Mihaly (Cd-MaN)" <x_at_y_or_z@yahoo.com>

Glauber Costa wrote:
>> Even that is tremendously useful.  Once you identify a regression, it is
>> easy to bisect and pinpoint the offending patch, which also locates the
>> author.
>>     
>
> Not that easy, regarding bisection. Qemu does not have an as strict
> commit policy as the linux kernel, and you bet most of the commits
> won't build fine by their own.
>   

If we have such a testsuite, the motivation for bisect friendly commits 
will increase.


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