What is bibisect? And what is it doing in my office?

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Robinson Tryon
<bishop.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Robinson Tryon
>> <bishop.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Here's my first shot at bibisect integration into tinbuild2.
>>
>> Sorry, I've been afk for some time.. I'll be back soon.
>> I took a quick glance, and up front:
>>
>> + I'd like not to create a new step for that but to fold it in the 'push' step
>
> For clarity I'll keep the bulk of the code factored-out into a
> separate function, but I'll have that function called from within
> do_push().

Yep, that is fine.

> I think that all of the git and file operations should run on most
> *nix systems, including OSX. There might be a couple of tweaks to make
> sure that we use the right cross-platform switches for 'find', etc..
> but nothing major.
>
> Windows is a more...challenging creature.

No kidding :-)

But I'm not so much concerned about the git-foo part of the script but
rather with what is put in bi-bisect.
make dev-install does not work on all platform and you do not have a
*/opt/* to 'add' .
Norbert