I have bisected Wine regressions several times in the last year following the cookbook in http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting. Those bisections were for the principal branch (or whatever you call it) of development. How do you do similar bisections for the branch of development from 1.6 to 1.6.1? I need the name of that branch of development and how you specify it to the bisect process. Sorry for the git newbie question, but following the above cookbook has been essentially my only git experience to date.
The reason I am asking about bisecting from 1.6 to 1.6.1 is I have recently found some fairly strong evidence that there is an important regression in behavior between 1.6-rc4 and 1.6.1. I have used Wine 1.6-rc4 with a lot of success as a test platform for MinGW/MSYS PLplot builds and tests, but when I recently tried 1.6.1, my usual parallel tests of PLplot software failed with an error indicating plot devices (small dll's) cannot be dynamically loaded by the PLplot principal library for that version of Wine. (The problem disappears if I do the tests sequentially for 1.6.1, but I obviously want to avoid that method of testing because it doubles the test time for my two-cpu PC.)
The tests of 1.6-rc4 and 1.6.1 were quite similar but not absolutely identical so I do have to confirm the regression in behaviour for 1.6.1 with absolutely identical tests. But assuming I can do that, then I still have to discover if the problem occurred for 1.6. If so, the bisection needs to be an ordinary principal branch one that I am already familiar with between 1.6-rc4 and 1.6, but if not it needs to follow the 1.6.x development branch between 1.6 an 1.6.1.
Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
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