From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161108AbWG1JYA (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:24:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161110AbWG1JYA (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:24:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:54717 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161108AbWG1JX7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:23:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:23:55 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Michal Piotrowski" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 Message-Id: <20060728022355.2dd1e97a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <6bffcb0e0607280156s7a6c64eem8849c7d488964b82@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060727015639.9c89db57.akpm@osdl.org> <6bffcb0e0607280156s7a6c64eem8849c7d488964b82@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-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 On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:56:32 +0200 "Michal Piotrowski" wrote: > On 27/07/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc2/2.6.18-rc2-mm1/ > > > [snip] > > - Semi-daily snapshots of the -mm lineup are uploaded to > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/ and are announced on > > the mm-commits list. > > Andrew, have you considered switching that tree to git? IMHO > git-bisect is a killer-app. > There are many known-to-be-broken bisection points in a -mm tree. I'd expect git-style bisection wouldn't be very successful. quilt-style bisection is more straightforward. Plus you can make intelligent decisions to help it converge faster.