Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1

Andrew Morton
2006-07-28T09:24:00Z

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:56:32 +0200
"Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/07/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc2/2.6.18-rc2-mm1/
> >
> [snip]
> > - Semi-daily snapshots of the -mm lineup are uploaded to
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/ and are announced on
> > the mm-commits list.
>
> Andrew, have you considered switching that tree to git? IMHO
> git-bisect is a killer-app.
>

There are many known-to-be-broken bisection points in a -mm tree. I'd
expect git-style bisection wouldn't be very successful. quilt-style
bisection is more straightforward. Plus you can make intelligent decisions
to help it converge faster.