Re: Multi-OS Emacs buildbot?

[Pankaj Jangid]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> () Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
> () Sun, 20 Dec 2020 08:05:03 +0530
>
>    Even if that infrastruction is ready, I would certainly want
>    a script to find out the commit that broke the build on my
>    hardware. That reverse choronological loop.
>
> How would that loop be helpful?  If the late{st,r} commit works,
> i don't see the point looking for trouble.  What am i missing?

That script will not be useful only if the last commit works. It is useful
to file a bug if the last build fails. Usually, I git-pull once in a day
and that comes with many commits. If HEAD works then no worries. Else
try HEAD~1 and so on...