Hi Rado and Reinier,

1 patch for repository http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.5:

Rado: I noticed there were some FIXMEs in the user manual, which I assume
are yours/Matthias's.  I tried to write some basic documentation for trackdown
following your guide (now moved to http://wiki.darcs.net/Using/Trackdown ).
I've also created issue1937 for your second FIXME.

Comments?

Mon Aug 30 13:55:30 BST 2010  Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net>
  * Clean up trackdown --bisect documentation.


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Hi Eric and Reiner,

new text within comment looks good and thanks for issue1937 (Isn't
that Matthias's comment?).
Is it possible to host the picture files on some Darcs related server?

Next are some status updates not directly related to this email.

Delta approach:
I look looked shortly on delta debugging method [1] but I'm not sure
If I understood from the code what it is doing. Without the code I
would assume that no other method is possible except brute-force for
searching smallest possible set of the patches which makes the test
succeeded (e.g. all combination). Of course in the case of the Darcs
we have defined starting point and space is reduced by patch
dependencies. Is that assumption correct?

Issue1371:
I'm still trying to finish correction for that but I'm not able to
concentrate on that enough. I started writing a new version of the
configuration description [2] for both Windows and Linux for the
OpenSSH and the PuTTY (standard cases) with internal support within
Darcs for ssh suite auto-detection. In addition there will be
description how to configure the any other SSH suite by additional
configuration. The coding part itself should not be hard for me to
finish.

Rado

[1] http://github.com/droundy/iolaus-broken/blob/master/Iolaus/DeltaDebug.hs
[2] http://wiki.darcs.net/WindowsConfiguration

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Rado and Reinier,
>
> 1 patch for repository http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.5:
>
> Rado: I noticed there were some FIXMEs in the user manual, which I assume
> are yours/Matthias's.  I tried to write some basic documentation for trackdown
> following your guide (now moved to http://wiki.darcs.net/Using/Trackdown ).
> I've also created issue1937 for your second FIXME.
>
> Comments?
>
> Mon Aug 30 13:55:30 BST 2010  Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net>
>  * Clean up trackdown --bisect documentation.
>
>
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Op maandag 30 augustus 2010 14:55 schreef Eric Kow:
> New submission from Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net>:
> 1 patch for repository http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.5:
> 
> Rado: I noticed there were some FIXMEs in the user manual, which I assume
> are yours/Matthias's.  I tried to write some basic documentation for 
trackdown
> following your guide (now moved to http://wiki.darcs.net/Using/Trackdown ).
> I've also created issue1937 for your second FIXME.
> 
> Comments?

This is okay as a quick fix, so I'll push it to the 2.5 branch (and the HEAD 
if it applies cleanly).

I think ideally the manual would contain an explanation of what linear and 
binary search are, and contain one or more examples of cases where trackdown 
--bisect is useful. I don't have the time to write that myself though, so I'll 
shut up.

I also see that there are some places where "--bisect" is written in running 
text and LaTeX interprets the "--" as code for an extra long dash. I'll push a 
little patch to fix that.

Reinier

> I also see that there are some places where "--bisect" is written in running 
> text and LaTeX interprets the "--" as code for an extra long dash. I'll push 
a 
> little patch to fix that.

And I see I can't because the same strings are used as LaTeX source and as 
console output when the --help option is given. I'll leave it as it is.

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