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Re: svn bisect

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:45:03 +0200

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:35:54AM +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> Here's one I wrote a few months back. I didn't send it here because I
> didn't think it was a serious proposition, just something fun to
> exercise my brain cells. :-)
>
> One thing "git bisect" does that's not implemented here is to support a
> third response, "unable to test", and skip such revisions. I tried
> thinking about an algorithm to do that nicely, but didn't get anywhere
> really concrete.

It should also detect whether an update to a particular revision
actually affected the working copy, stop if it did not, and print
the previous revision as the suspect. Non-operative revisions are
especially likely in repositories such as ours which are shared
by many projects.
Received on 2011-06-21 10:45:43 CEST

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