rust-bitcoin / rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin

Having list of "broken" commits

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          I'm thinking that since we occasionally have broken master maybe we could have a list of known bad commits somewhere so that we can trivially skip them when doing `git bisect`. This can be emulated by first running the standard test suite and when it fails skipping but that's slow.

Originally posted by @Kixunil in https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/issues/3184#issuecomment-2304877009

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The issue mentions the standard test suite and git bisect, but does not identify a file, test, or entry point to change. First determine where known bad commits could be recorded and how bisect would consume that list; done would mean bad commits can be skipped without rerunning the full test suite.

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Assessment

Tech stack
git, rust
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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