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Re: Pulling one commit at a time.

From
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 24, 2009, 18:19 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Sanjiv Gupta<sanjiv.gupta@microchip.com> wrote:
> Excellent description. Thanks for that. I want to merge commits one by one
> because I want to run a regression suite on each commit and therefore know
> if any one is causing failures.
Hi Sanjiv,

'git bisect' is an even better way to do this, in my experience. I wrote a program (http://github.com/apenwarr/gitbuilder/) that automatically runs regression tests against all the new versions on all the new branches. It then publishes the results on a web page and via RSS.

gitbuilder does take a shortcut: if commit x passes and commit x+10 passes, it doesn't bother to test commit x+1..9. However, if x+10 fails, it bisects automatically to find the first commit that caused a failure. You could disable this shortcut easily enough, however.

Have fun,
Avery
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  2. Alex RiesenAug 23, 2009
  3. Adam BrewsterAug 23, 2009
  4. Sam VilainAug 23, 2009
  5. Nanako ShiraishiAug 23, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2009
  7. Sanjiv GuptaAug 24, 2009
  8. Kai BlinAug 24, 2009
  9. Sanjiv GuptaAug 24, 2009
  10. Sean EstabrooksAug 24, 2009
  11. Erik Faye-LundAug 24, 2009
  12. Erik Faye-LundAug 24, 2009
  13. Matthieu MoyAug 24, 2009
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  15. Matthieu MoyAug 24, 2009
  16. David AguilarAug 24, 2009
  17. Sanjiv GuptaAug 24, 2009
  18. Matthieu MoyAug 24, 2009
  19. Avery PennarunAug 24, 2009
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