Adrian Bunk wrote:

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:

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Ingo Molnar wrote:

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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 

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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.

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Oh yes, definitely.  When that use happens to be a kernel dev + git user,
it saves the *fool who broke it* a hell of a lot of time, because they can
slough it off onto the poor bloke who notices it.

Mind you, no arguing that this is effective when that poor bloke
has a day free to download the git-tree and build/reboot a dozen times.