Re: git bisect problems/ideas
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Aaron S. Meurer <asmeurer@gmail.com>
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- Jan 19, 2011, 19:15 UTC
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So if I care about this issue I should keep bumping it until it gets fixed?
Aaron Meurer
On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes: > >> Well, bugs are usually fixed within days after they have been >> reported. Otherwise they are usually documented in the code or in the >> documentation or in the test suite (with test_expect_failure). >> >> For the rest we rely on people remembering what happened and on >> people's mailing list searching skills ;-) > > Not really. > > What we do is to take advantage of the fact that issues people do care > about are important ones, and others that nobody cares about are not worth > pursuing. > > In a sense, "people forgetting" is a lot more important than "people > remembering" to filter unimportant issues (issues that are so unimportant > that even the original complainer does not bother to come back and > re-raise it).