Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] automatically skip away from broken commits

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Date

Jun 9, 2009, 18:42 UTC

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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
>> My main objection to the "skip in goodness space" is exactly the same as
>> Junio's... it doesn't really buy you what it claims to sell.
> 
> It is no worse than the original "pick the next best in goodness space";
> neither try to avoid the ones close to untestable ones.
> 

> So as long as it does not claim "we intelligently try to skip away from
> untestable ones", I am actually Ok with Christian's patch.  It might do
> worse than the random walk in pathological cases, but I suspect not by a
> big margin.

	-hpa