From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reachability lists in git
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:32:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141118203204.GM6527@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1411181523320.879-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Alan Stern wrote:
> Tracking down regressions. Bisection isn't perfect. Suppose a
> bisection run ends up saying that B is the first bad commit. It's easy
> enough to build B and test it, to verify that it really is bad.
>
> But to be sure that B introduced the fault, it would help to find the
> latest commit that doesn't include B's changes -- that is, the latest
> commit that B isn't reachable from (or the maximal elements in the set
> of all such commits).
Isn't that B^ (or B^ and B^2, if B is a merge)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-18 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-18 19:03 Reachability lists in git Alan Stern
2014-11-18 19:41 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-18 20:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 20:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-18 20:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-18 20:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 20:29 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-18 20:32 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2014-11-18 20:45 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-18 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 21:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 21:16 ` Alan Stern
2014-11-18 21:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-18 21:37 ` Alan Stern
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