Re: biweekly Critical issues plea

[Francisco Vila]

2011/1/19 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 04:32:21PM +0100, Francisco Vila wrote:
>> 2011/1/19 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
>> >it's no problem for me to recompile lilypond
>> > 30 or 40 times.
>>
>> Finding a commit out of 40 by git-bisect shouldn't need to recompile
>> more than log2(40)=5.32  , this gives 6 times in the worst case.
>
> We've had more than 40 commits between 2.12.3 and 2.13.46.
> Granted, it's probably less than a billion.  I guess that "12 to
> 14 times" would have been a better estimate.

Oops, you're right.  Namely, 13 as a worst case is the figure.

There is no 2.12.3 tag in master; there are
2.12.2-1 01ceb9ac (4469 commits until 2.13.46), and
2.13.0-0 f1f15cd97 (4348 commits until 2.13.46).

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