To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm5
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:59:09 +0100
Organization: {M:U} IT Consulting
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Hi, Andrew Morton wrote:

> - If you hit a bug in -mm and it's not obvious which patch caused it, it
> is
>   most valuable if you can perform a bisection search to identify which
>   patch introduced the bug.  Instructions for this process are at
> 
>         http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt

You can also use the mm->git tree (at .../linux/kernel/git/smurf/
/linux-trees.git) and use "git bisect".

It'll be a bit slower, but the upside is that it's able to descend into
the git trees which Andrew has imported into mm as monolithic patches.

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Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |  smurf@smurf.noris.de
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