[webkit-dev] Git meeting notes

[Daniel Cheng]

(sent from the wrong email, sorry)
git-bisect can be used for a binary regression search.

Daniel

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Daniel Cheng <dcheng at google.com> wrote:

> git-bisect can be used for a binary regression search.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, David Kilzer <ddkilzer at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> It's not immediately clear how to sort a list of commit hashes into a
>> sequential list, e.g., if using a list of nightly builds for a binary
>> regression search.
>>
>> Perhaps there is a git command that sorts them for you given an existing
>> repository?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, April 12, 2010 at 8:15:40 PM, Timothy Hatcher wrote:
>>
>> > Only the first 5-7 characters are needed to identify a single commit
>> (enough of
>> > the hash prefix to be unique). So REGRESSION(96c3b0) vs
>> > REGRESSION(r12345).
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2010, at 6:28 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > One thing that wasn't mentioned at the meeting is that git
>> > doesn't seem to have the same monotonously increasing revision numbers
>> as svn
>> > does. It will be a problem to replace REGRESSION(r12345) with
>> > REGRESSION(96c3b0300ccf16b64efc260c21c85ba9030f2e3a).
>>
>> — Timothy
>> > Hatcher
>>
>>
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