From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Jonas Rebmann" <kernel@schlaraffenlan.de>,
"Ricardo B. Marlière (SUSE)" <ricardo@marliere.net>
Subject: Re: FYI, git output messages are being used by other tooling
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:33:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261020153338.54d60ffb@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83c59078-f6f1-456a-a99b-688eaf56bab0@app.fastmail.com>
On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:28:10 +0200
"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> wrote:
> > Where returning 0 means the bad commit has been found.
> > Otherwise it keeps looping.
>
> Is this different from git bisect run?
Yes. It's ktest.pl that was created back in 2010 for automated testing of
Linux kernels. It will build, install, boot and test each kernel and based
on the result it will do a git bisect good/bad.
Thus it is much more advanced that "git bisect run".
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-20 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-20 18:10 Steven Rostedt
2026-10-20 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-20 18:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-10-20 19:09 ` Theodore Tso
2026-10-20 19:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-10-20 19:28 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-10-20 19:33 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2026-10-20 18:44 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
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