Speaking of git bisect, a lot of great work has been put into automating things with the test suite, and extra things like generating test profile coverage.

It could be an ongoing nice timesaver if a tool could be added to git that, for regressions, automatically figured out which PR caused the breakage.

On Thursday, 13 February 2020 at 09:26:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Speaking of git bisect, a lot of great work has been put into automating things with the test suite, and extra things like generating test profile coverage.
>
> It could be an ongoing nice timesaver if a tool could be added to git that, for regressions, automatically figured out which PR caused the breakage.

I think that digger, by Vladimir, does that:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger

On Thursday, 13 February 2020 at 09:40:46 UTC, mate wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 February 2020 at 09:26:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Speaking of git bisect, a lot of great work has been put into automating things with the test suite, and extra things like generating test profile coverage.
>>
>> It could be an ongoing nice timesaver if a tool could be added to git that, for regressions, automatically figured out which PR caused the breakage.
>
> I think that digger, by Vladimir, does that:
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger

Yup, digger is great. It's saved me a lot of time.

On 2/13/2020 3:53 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 February 2020 at 09:40:46 UTC, mate wrote:
>> On Thursday, 13 February 2020 at 09:26:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Speaking of git bisect, a lot of great work has been put into automating things with the test suite, and extra things like generating test profile coverage.
>>>
>>> It could be an ongoing nice timesaver if a tool could be added to git that, for regressions, automatically figured out which PR caused the breakage.
>>
>> I think that digger, by Vladimir, does that:
>> https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger
> 
> Yup, digger is great. It's saved me a lot of time.

Anyone want to apply that to the regression list?


https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=regression&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&list_id=230123&query_format=advanced

On Thursday, 13 February 2020 at 09:26:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Speaking of git bisect, a lot of great work has been put into automating things with the test suite, and extra things like generating test profile coverage.
>
> It could be an ongoing nice timesaver if a tool could be added to git that, for regressions, automatically figured out which PR caused the breakage.

Vladimir gave a presentation about it at DConf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1viQK8w6370
I highly recommend watching the whole video but in case you're in a hurry, the Digger part starts here: https://youtu.be/1viQK8w6370?t=1850