Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm5

From: Matthias Urlichs
Date: Sat Feb 04 2006 - 02:57:32 EST


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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