Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

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

> On 27/07/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 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.
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