[webkit-dev] Git meeting notes

[David Kilzer]

Sure, but you have to rebuild WebKit for each test during the git-bisect.  Being able to use pre-built binaries is faster, especially if they're already downloaded.

Dave


From: Daniel Cheng <dcheng at chromium.org>
>To: David Kilzer <ddkilzer at webkit.org>
>Cc: Timothy Hatcher <timothy at apple.com>; Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>; WebKit Development <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>
>Sent: Mon, April 12, 2010 9:07:13 PM
>Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Git meeting notes
>
>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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