Re: FYI, git output messages are being used by other tooling
From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 15:34:06 EST
On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:28:10 +0200
"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Where returning 0 means the bad commit has been found.
> > Otherwise it keeps looping.
>
> Is this different from git bisect run?
Yes. It's ktest.pl that was created back in 2010 for automated testing of
Linux kernels. It will build, install, boot and test each kernel and based
on the result it will do a git bisect good/bad.
Thus it is much more advanced that "git bisect run".
-- Steve