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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pulling one commit at a time.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:19:56 +0000
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Sanjiv Gupta<sanjiv.gupta@microchip.com> wrote:
> Excellent description. Thanks for that. I want to merge commits one by one
> because I want to run a regression suite on each commit and therefore know
> if any one is causing failures.

Hi Sanjiv,

'git bisect' is an even better way to do this, in my experience.  I
wrote a program (http://github.com/apenwarr/gitbuilder/) that
automatically runs regression tests against all the new versions on
all the new branches.  It then publishes the results on a web page and
via RSS.

gitbuilder does take a shortcut: if commit x passes and commit x+10
passes, it doesn't bother to test commit x+1..9.  However, if x+10
fails, it bisects automatically to find the first commit that caused a
failure.  You could disable this shortcut easily enough, however.

Have fun,

Avery