git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 11:18 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
>         Now, having bisecability could be useful (I have never used a
>  bisect);  I don't know what the effect of a version that does not
>  compile or is otherwise buggy would have on the work flow.

Depending on the treatment of branches by the bisection tool it can
cause false reports of the origin of a defect; this then increases the
manual effort needed to find a problem.

-Rob

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