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Re: AAARGH bisection is hard (Re: [2.6.39 regression] X locks up hard right after logging in)

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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
May 13, 2011, 18:34 UTC
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Am 13.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Linus Torvalds:
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> For example, in your case, since you had certain requirements of
> support that simply didn't exist earlier, something like
> 
>    git bisect requires v2.6.38
> 
> would have been really useful - telling git bisect that any commit
> that cannot reach that required commit is not even worth testing.
You can already have this with
   git bisect good v2.6.38

It sounds a bit unintuitive, but with a slight mind-twist it can even be regarded as correct in a mathematical sense: when the precondition is false, the result is true. ;-)

-- Hannes
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  1. Andrew LutomirskiMay 12, 2011
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