[Libreoffice] What is bibisect? And what is it doing in my office?

[Caolán McNamara]

On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 14:59 +0100, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
>  http://people.canonical.com/~bjoern/bibisect-3.5.lzma
> 
> contains:
> 
>  - 53 complete office installs between the creation of the core repo and the
>    -3-5 branchoff (thats >5000 commits) 
>  - at 450MB each, that would be ~22GB total
>  - however, it is only 749MB total download size, thats <15MB per installation
> 
> And one does not need to install them in parallel as one can switch through all
> of them with a quick "git checkout source-hash-XXXXXX" -- one switch costs <1
> second).

That is fairly amazing :-)

C.