Alan Stern wrote: > Tracking down regressions. Bisection isn't perfect. Suppose a > bisection run ends up saying that B is the first bad commit. It's easy > enough to build B and test it, to verify that it really is bad. > > But to be sure that B introduced the fault, it would help to find the > latest commit that doesn't include B's changes -- that is, the latest > commit that B isn't reachable from (or the maximal elements in the set > of all such commits).
Isn't that B^ (or B^ and B^2, if B is a merge)? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
