-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/11 06:23, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Bernd Schmidt <ber...@codesourcery.com> wrote: >> On 04/05/2011 08:26 AM, Steven Bosscher wrote: >>> I don't understand, really, why it's such a big deal to revert a patch >>> quickly if it broke something. >> >> To answer this as well, firstly a proposal that comes with a request to >> revert the wrong patch discredits itself. > > Agreed. Note that in this particular case (and in most cases I can > remember) the commit that broke things was identified correctly. This > is what HJ's autotester is really good at. It's reasonably good at identifying the breakage, but I have certainly had cases where the autotester got it wrong as well.
The auto-tester is definitely a help. Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNm0HRAAoJEBRtltQi2kC77JcH/A7UcoXsS5BeIHLhMEHnodVk +Itu9BGuWVR2toD0NUWohIOXpKbfVhTl1tgV+SLYifglzJ0akA8rF9b5KgAe3DML SRePYgoVar2LOz7khDOhZbiQBL+3ubGxr+/9QxRypFR25TuvoWncVUJd0DTsoBQd XnjGcDWhw6kSGToDzIop3GXaEz+3LpvLzjYA0kMH4tVuAYqHMrCy+QDtI9WKS8p0 syVdvhMKAYWOpIizQikeUFO4zizZDCtxkFPBkfZNGemYXfnU/eaRmTdcfAEeWrzw H854+jCzIljL0syBj2u1oOagN8w695Xf3m4QjEr/FK6Kif/ilvC8G7uqutA+Q9k= =aZ2P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
