[Twisted-Python] How to bisect Twisted?

[Jonathan Lange]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Peter Westlake
<peter.westlake at pobox.com> wrote:
> In the Git version of the Twisted source code, there are tags for
> releases, e.g. the revision with SHA id
> 85a6a0f9e3c4ea22d1d72d4ca8eb0c08ee99ca85 corresponds to 8.0.0. This is
> good, but there aren't any intermediate changes on that branch (tag?),
> just the releases! So there isn't much for "git bisect" to work with.
> I'm trying to trace a bug that wasn't in 2.5.0 but is in 8.0.0; what
> arguments should I give to bisect? Apologies if this is obvious to
> anyone who knows how to use git, but I'm just a beginner.
>

I don't know about git, but the way I'd do it in Bazaar is:
  bzr bisect -r svn:19165..svn:23025 run <script>

Where <script> is something that tests for the bug.

Revision numbers obtained from
http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/ReleaseRevisions; bzr-bisect from
https://launchpad.net/bzr-bisect; bzr-svn from
https://launchpad.net/bzr-svn.

jml