Branches are Bad? (was: Re: What are the strengths of Mercurial for you?)

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 04:32:28 schrieb Theodore Tso:
> Bisect works fine with multiple heads.  What breaks bisects is
> check-ins that don't build, since the compile failures or trivial
> run-time failures make it harder to track down when a failure was
> introduced.

Since you can select any kind of test as the bisect command, you can still 
work around that. 

Only failures which affect the problem you're testing against always create a 
problem. 

Still you can just start bisect again, when you see that the found revision 
wasn't the correct one. 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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