Re: git bisect problems/ideas

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So if I care about this issue I should keep bumping it until it gets fixed?

Aaron Meurer

On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Well, bugs are usually fixed within days after they have been
>> reported. Otherwise they are usually documented in the code or in the
>> documentation or in the test suite (with test_expect_failure).
>> 
>> For the rest we rely on people remembering what happened and on
>> people's mailing list searching skills ;-)
> 
> Not really.
> 
> What we do is to take advantage of the fact that issues people do care
> about are important ones, and others that nobody cares about are not worth
> pursuing.
> 
> In a sense, "people forgetting" is a lot more important than "people
> remembering" to filter unimportant issues (issues that are so unimportant
> that even the original complainer does not bother to come back and
> re-raise it).

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