On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:..Ingo Molnar wrote:for example git-bisect was godsent. I remember that years ago bisection of a bug was a very laborous task so that it was only used as a final, last-ditch approach for really nasty bugs. Today we can autonomouly bisect build bugs via a simple shell command around "git-bisect run", without any human interaction! This freed up testing resources..
It's only a godsend for the few people who happen to be kernel developers
It's also godsend for users who want a regression they observe fixed.
If you can tell which patch broke it you often turned a very hard to debug problem into a relatively easy fixable problem.