From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264610AbUEXR4a (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 13:56:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264627AbUEXR4a (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 13:56:30 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:11750 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264610AbUEXR40 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 13:56:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:55:52 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christian Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tarballs of patchsets? Message-Id: <20040524105552.311a990b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <40B21F98.1080803@g-house.de> References: <40B21F98.1080803@g-house.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christian wrote: > > i am trying to chase some bug and i know, it must be somewhere between 2.6.4 and > 2.6.5. The most practical way of doing this would be to download bitkeeper and do a binary search. 1: Do `bk changes > foo'. This generates a monster changelog file which is your bisection-searching guide. It has stuff like: ChangeSet@1.1734, 2004-05-21 22:59:48+01:00, tony@com.rmk.(none) [ARM PATCH] 1887/1: Update OMAP low level debug functions again Patch from Tony Lindgren This patch makes the low level debug functions work when support is compiled in for multiple OMAPs. The patch also removes now unnecessary include, incorrect comment, and SERIAL_REG_SHIFT ifdefs. 2: Do bl clone -ql -r1.1734 ref-repo test-repo and you have a tree up to and including 1.1734. 3: cd test-repo ; bk -r get 4: build, test, choose new revision, goto step 1. It's probably possible to do the same with the CVS tree - I haven't tried.