From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:26:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection
Message-ID: <20080417152633.GA12951@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20080417135013.GA2017@fieldses.org>

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:50:13AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:55:03PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > Sure, you will get some numbers, but if anyone would e.g. wrongly accuse 
> > me that 2% of my commits last year introduced bugs I would get 
> > ***really*** angry.
> 
> It's just an experiment; reasonable people won't take it as the final
> word.

Take e.g. [1] as an example how git statistics about the Linux kernel 
are already used to "prove" things that aren't true.

> --b.

cu
Adrian

[1] http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/11/lies-d-oh-forget-it/

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