[Libreoffice-qa] Using bibisect

[Alex Kempshall]

Ilmari

Thanks for the reply where you wrote

> Branches are not used. Tagged commits are used, but usually only 
> "oldest" and "latest" are tagged. 
So this is maybe why I did this the last time I did a bibisect

> git checkout f69ad1e0f0cfcfc6488e3739c4ef7efcc1445b72
> git bisect start
> git bisect good
> git bisect bad master
> ./opt/program/soffice --base /home/alex/Documents/aprog_mysql.odb
> git bisect bad

and so on

I shall have a look at the bibisect documentation that you suggested. 
I'm sure I'll wake up and remember what I did the last time.

Thanks again

Alex

On 12/11/2018 17:16, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote:
> Alex Kempshall kirjoitti 12.11.2018 klo 18.54:
>> I'm sure I've done this before, but for the moment my brain's gone dead!
> ...
>>
>> If do
>>
>> $git status
>>
>> I get
>>
>>> On branch master
>>> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
>>>
>>> Untracked files:
>>>   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>>>
>>>         instdir/user/
>>>
>>> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" 
>>> to track)
>>
>> At the moment I'm not worried about the untracked files.
>
> instdir/user is the user profile, don't worry about it.
>
>> For bisect, on source code, I would normally do a git branch -a to 
>> see what I've got and then start bisecting.
>>
>> git branch -a
>>
>> gives me
>>
>>> * master
>>>   remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
>>>   remotes/origin/master
>>
>> I'm expecting a long list of branches which I could use to kick start 
>> my good and bad bisect steps.
>
> Branches are not used. Tagged commits are used, but usually only 
> "oldest" and "latest" are tagged.
> Use
> git tag -l
> to list the tagged commits.
>
> Using tags is not necessary. You can also just use commit hashes (of 
> the bibisect repo commits.
>
> The wiki article has some tips added this year, so do check it out: 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bibisect
>
> Ilmari
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