On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:50 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
Ingo Molnar wrote:
for example git-bisect was godsent. I remember that years ago bisection of a bug was a very laborous task so that it was only used as a final, last-ditch approach for really nasty bugs. Today we can autonomouly bisect build bugs via a simple shell command around "git-bisect run", without any human interaction! This freed up testing resources
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It's only a godsend for the few people who happen to be kernel developers and who happen to already use git.
It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone else.
Oh, common. Leeching CDs is so yesterday. These days some distributions don't even offer CDs anymore in favour of DVDs.
I'd be amazed if a lot of the testers would still be on slownet, its impossible to keep up with the latest distros without broadband.