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From: "Philip Oakley, CEng MIET" <philipoakley@theiet.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
	"Git Mailing list" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "git bisect run make" adequate to locate first unbuildable commit?
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 20:48:55 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9803DEA99A6545F7A3F9A3CE08FE2263@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LFD.2.21.1802090817550.6248@android-a172fe96dd584b41

From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
>
>  writing a short tutorial on "git bisect" and, all the details of
> special exit code 125 aside, if one wanted to locate the first
> unbuildable commit, would it be sufficient to just run?
>
>  $ git bisect run make
>
>  as i read it, make returns either 0, 1 or 2 so there doesn't appear
> to be any possibility of weirdness with clashing with a 125 exit code.
> am i overlooking some subtle detail here i should be aware of? thanks.
>
> rday
>

In the spirit of pedanticism, one should also clarify the word "first", in 
that it's not a linear search for _an_ unbuildable commit, but that one is 
looking for the transition between an unbroken sequence of unbuildable 
commits, which transitions to buildable commits, and its the transition that 
is sought. (there could be many random unbuildable commits within a sequence 
in some folks' processes!)
--
Philip 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-09 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-09 13:20 "git bisect run make" adequate to locate first unbuildable commit? Robert P. J. Day
2018-02-09 13:47 ` Christian Couder
2018-02-09 20:48 ` Philip Oakley, CEng MIET [this message]
2018-02-09 20:54   ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-02-09 22:44     ` Philip Oakley
2018-02-12 10:19       ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-02-12 13:05         ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-13 12:41       ` Robert P. J. Day

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