[Libreoffice-qa] MacOSX bibisect for 4-2

[Norbert Thiebaud]

a bibisect repo covering the 4-2 period from the branch point of the
4.1 release branch to few days ago on the libreoffcie-4-2 branch is
now available at

git://dev-downloads.libreoffice.org/bibisect_mac_lo42.git

a tar.bz2 snapshot of the repo is available for http download at
http://dev-downloads.libreoffice.org/MacOS_Bibibsect/

That repo contains 2732 build for 5.42 GB
starting at
commit 02021163dbbcc8904da0b2138c8b53684dcc8ab4
Author: Noel Grandin <noel at peralex.com>
Date:   Tue May 21 13:52:07 2013 +0200

    fdo#46808, Convert oox::PowerPointExport service to new style

    The service already existed, it just needed an IDL file

    Change-Id: I1404f4f60abafd489ddfb7294affcc7ff33885ce

and ending at

commit 80373a6969fd8d3c19231041e465372cf03f53f2
Author: Markus Mohrhard <markus.mohrhard at googlemail.com>
Date:   Sun Dec 1 04:45:36 2013 +0100

    fix 2D vs 3D coordinatesystem regression, fdo#67300

    regression from 088e86b865062dd4cc5ba0c85c6068dea62238db

Note the log of that repo looks like:

commit c5b9a799f9d24eba970966f1afabfe931574e933
Author: Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 3 12:48:46 2013 -0600

    source sha:80373a6969fd8d3c19231041e465372cf03f53f2

    source sha:80373a6969fd8d3c19231041e465372cf03f53f2
    source sha:666ef5425e4e7e1a01c3dddbd0d847fec193176a
    source sha:b9410131861af3a5f54d0585dfc47e5f512e0320
    source sha:d0f664014d02e02fbcfa80c118a0950f45513ada
    source sha:5ce4d7233fa3ea627cfbdc97a68d2b23e4abd057
    source sha:1fee10725dbd62e78fd3ae14f0bd7872eabff3f9
    source sha:78f227e1371ef4d11bc98e2116a3b95bb881b020
    source sha:642df5d716f858f1f6b3d6219132c3323032975a
    source sha:79384a8f6049d10fd581e782deb57db653ac1a25
    source sha:ca1dfd2119d97f949e76766b98d2917c40ccf92c

commit 91bba033d12008dcefb0258b79365668a557e04b
Author: Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 3 12:48:00 2013 -0600

    source sha:829621680b028909d58b0480a78a6aee7154f31a

    source sha:829621680b028909d58b0480a78a6aee7154f31a
    source sha:be6bed2ca4083039bfcbd62f9603efa3a0bdd3dc
    source sha:7646af0e114d0a644e4705bba3ab4219bb99a349
    source sha:3367381d2b579d90b209756f9ec5c06b012e9798
    source sha:6e5dc4c7a344d9c3530a69537929090dedb8f275


where the first source sha: line is the source cha that was used to
build that particular bibisect commit
and the rest of the commit message list the source commit that are
between taht bibisect commit and the previous bibisect commit

To find a bibisect commit that first contain a given source sha, you
can therefore use

git log --grep <source_sha>

to find the source sha asocaited witht he first commit of the bibisect repo do
git log --grep BEGIN_BIBISECT

v $git log --grep BEGIN_BIBISECT
commit e47ec366529846e008a4db27c8c507cdc7714c78
Author: Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Nov 10 19:12:32 2013 -0600

    source sha:02021163dbbcc8904da0b2138c8b53684dcc8ab4

    source sha:02021163dbbcc8904da0b2138c8b53684dcc8ab4
    tag:BEGIN_BIBISECT


Happy bibisecting....

Norbert