On 1/11/11 1:09 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2011, at 13:39, Tech Geek wrote:
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>> We are using svn, version 1.6.12 (r955767) on a Linux based machine (SVN Server) and use TortoiseSVN as clients. However, I do not see command svn-bisect on both of them. How can I get svn-bisect just like there is git-bisect?
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> Subversion does not include a program called "svn-bisect". For those of us not familiar with git, perhaps you could explain what git-bisect does, then we can tell you if there is equivalent functionality available in Subversion.
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> Alternately, a Google search shows me others have written tools called "svn-bisect" which may do what you want:
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> http://www.google.com/search?q=svn-bisect
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I read a few of the links out of curiosity - this one expains what it does and
why you would want it:
http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2009/01/git_bisect.html
Basically you give it a good and bad revision and a test to run and it finds the
commit that broke things with a binary search. Of course if you were using
something like Hudson doing continuous builds for you, you'd already know...
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Les Mikesell
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Received on 2011-01-11 14:43:14 CET