Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Monday 31 October 2005 03:13, David Lang wrote:
> > I was thinking about doing thatn in hidden input fields and
> > passing form back and forth.  After all what real git bisect
> > keeps locally are one bad commit ID and bunch of good commit
> > IDs.
>
> if it's kept in a file or cookie then it can survive a reboot and other
> distractions (remember that this process can take days if the problem
> doesn't show up at boot). a cookie can hold a couple K worth of data, a
> file has no size limit.

Actually, lots of Linux browsers these days treats all cookies as session 
cookies for security reasons.  So surviving a reboot still isn't guaranteed.  
But it's possible.

You can also have 'em bookmark a URL...

> it would also be a good idea if the web page could give an estimate
> estimate of how many additional tests may end up being required.

Bisect already says how many commits are left in the pool, so roughly log(2) 
of that...

> David Lang

Rob