Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755201Ab1CNNQa (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:16:30 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:34350 "HELO mailout-de.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753535Ab1CNNQ1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:16:27 -0400 Cc: Jan Beulich , "H.J. Lu" , binutils@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:16:23 +0100 From: "Ralf Wildenhues" In-Reply-To: <20110314122342.GA26825@elte.hu> Message-ID: <20110314131623.119020@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Organization: Institute for Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn References: <20110311165802.GA3508@intel.com> <4D7A64670200007800035F4C@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4D7DE39302000078000362E6@vpn.id2.novell.com> <20110314095534.GB18058@elte.hu> <20110314104131.GG6275@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20110314122342.GA26825@elte.hu> Subject: git bisect plus fixes (was: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]) To: Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org X-Authenticated: #13673931 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Mutt-Fcc: =git X-Mutt-References: <20110314122342.GA26825@elte.hu> X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+86LdEcsC83AfpL64lSuTjzb+WnFcD5/aFJg5ZfI Tbw8HrecaezDupFW31Ot3CowzX5X5aYFk+/g== X-GMX-UID: RnkVJTd7TlI8TqPAp2hrBBZOU2poZZne Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1158 Lines: 27 [ adding the git list; this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/52601/focus=1112779 ] Hello, * Ingo Molnar wrote on Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:23:42PM CET: > Also, i hope you are not suggesting to break projects just because > they are not important to you personally? The fix is exceedingly > simple to do for the binutils project - and impossible to do for the > kernel project (because during bisection - which is a very powerful > debugging tool - older versions of the source get checked out). FWIW, I don't have an opinion on this particular binutils issue, but it would be very helpful if 'git bisect' made it easy to denote "when going back, you might also need some of these changes". (I'd just use a patch -p1 with a here-file in the bisect script, but that might not be enough for all practical use cases.) This issue has come up several times with high-profile issues. Thanks, Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/