From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263058AbVG3MUR (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:20:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263060AbVG3MUR (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:20:17 -0400 Received: from mailfe08.swip.net ([212.247.154.225]:54744 "EHLO swip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263058AbVG3MUP (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:20:15 -0400 X-T2-Posting-ID: jLUmkBjoqvly7NM6d2gdCg== Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:20:07 +0200 From: Alexander Nyberg To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Making it easier to find which change introduced a bug Message-ID: <20050730122007.GA8364@localhost.localdomain> References: <200507300442_MC3-1-A5F6-A039@compuserve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200507300442_MC3-1-A5F6-A039@compuserve.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > We need a super-easy way for people to do bisection searching. > > First step would be to make interdiffs available as quilt patchsets. > > If we had this for e.g. 2.6.13-rc3 -> rc4 it would make tracking down > those new bugs much easier. > > (Yes I know git does bisection but Andrew said it should be easy.) > __ Yeah I agree, it would be extremely useful and simplify for people who don't have git installed. Linus, do you think we could have something like patch-2.6.13-rc4-incremental-broken-out.tar.bz2 that could like Andrew's be placed into patches/ in a tree? So for example, have a tree with 2.6.13-rc3, download patch-2.6.13-rc4-incremental-broken-out.tar.bz2, place it in patches/ and be able to do quilt push / quilt pop easily. As it stands today it's easier for us who don't know git to just find out in which mainline kernel it works and which -mm it doesn't work in, get the broken-out and start push/pop. And I know I'm not the only one who has noticed this. Thanks Alexander