Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: >> Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> for example git-bisect was godsent. I remember that years ago bisection of >>> a bug was a very laborous task so that it was only used as a final, >>> last-ditch approach for really nasty bugs. Today we can autonomouly bisect >>> build bugs via a simple shell command around "git-bisect run", without any >>> human interaction! This freed up testing resources >> .. >> >> It's only a godsend for the few people who happen to be kernel developers > > It's also godsend for users who want a regression they observe fixed. > > If you can tell which patch broke it you often turned a very hard to > debug problem into a relatively easy fixable problem. .. Oh yes, definitely. When that use happens to be a kernel dev + git user, it saves the *fool who broke it* a hell of a lot of time, because they can slough it off onto the poor bloke who notices it. Mind you, no arguing that this is effective when that poor bloke has a day free to download the git-tree and build/reboot a dozen times. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
