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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 12:37:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Now, I've gotten several positive comments on how easy "git bisect" is to 
> use, and I've used it myself, but this is the first time that patch users 
> _really_ become very much second-class citizens, and you can't necessarily 
> always do useful things with just the tar-trees and patches. That's sad, 
> and possibly a really big downside.
> 
> Don't get me wrong - I personally think that the new merge policy is a 
> clear improvement, but it does have this downside.

Well...  All it takes is extra patches when incremental gets too large;
e.g. have a script pick idle interval close to splitting the thing in
half until parts get less than <size>.  The question is, how much extra
load would that create?  Another problem is that a lot of intermediates
will not build, but that is just as true for -git<n> snapshots ;-/
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