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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bisecting display bugs
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:40:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737nhc5px.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5782E073.6000505@gmail.com

Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit@gmail.com> writes:

> I've written up notes while bisecting a display bug (#23938) on
> master. Since it didn't seem easy to identify the problem
> automatically from Elisp, I used a small `git bisect run' script that
> automatically captured, cropped, and compared screenshots of Emacs
> against a known-good reference. All in all, things worked nicely: git
> bisect took 4 hours to complete, but it didn't require any interaction
> after starting.
>
> I attached my notes.  Is there interest in including them in admin/notes/?

Speaking as someone who painfully bisected Emacs many times (read:
having to visually check good/bad result on each iteration), the part
about comparing the display's image against a good sample is highly
interesting, and not only for hunting display bugs.




  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-11  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-10 23:55 Bisecting display bugs Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-11  1:40 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2016-07-11 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-11 17:46   ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-11 17:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-11 18:05       ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-07-22 18:55   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-23  8:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-23 13:22       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-04-16 15:04         ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-04-16 15:32           ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-16 20:57             ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-04-17 13:13               ` Herring, Davis
2017-04-17 13:43                 ` Teemu Likonen

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