From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:02:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] automatically skip away from broken commits
Message-ID: <7vzlcixwue.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A2D337C.70203@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> The advantage of that -- and I have to admit I don't know if it will
> ever matter in practice -- is that using an actual PRNG:
>
> a) is less likely to get into pathological capture behaviors.
> b) doesn't make people think later that there is something magic to the
>    arbitrary chosen numbers.

My gut feeling agrees with you that both are likely to be true; these are
good points.

Christian, what do you think?