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Hi Christian,

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Christian Couder wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Probably a less resource intensive approach is to find the tips of the
> > topics not in 'next' but in 'pu' and test them.  That would give you
> > which topic(s) are problematic, which is a better starting point than
> > "Oh, 'pu' does not build".  After identifying which branch is
> > problematic, bisection of individual topic would be of more manageable
> > size.
> 
> It is still probably more resource intensive than it couls be.

Indeed.

Ciao,
Dscho