From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:07:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Pulling one commit at a time.
Message-ID: <vpqskfhbhcz.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4A92703E.90007@microchip.com>

Sanjiv Gupta <sanjiv.gupta@microchip.com> writes:

> I was looking for post-mortem change-that-introduced-bug.

If so, then you don't need to test every commit. As David mentionned,
"git bisect" is your friend, and will do a binary search, finding the
culprit commit much more efficiently (run the testsuite log(n) times
instead of n times).

OTOH, if you want some kind of quality insurance (i.e. check that
every commit is OK, including the case where a commit introduces a
bug, and the next one fixes it), bisect is rather helpless.

-- 
Matthieu