From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:35:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] automatically skip away from broken commits
Message-ID: <7vljo1mf09.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A2E7EEC.2050807@zytor.com>

"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.