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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Any repoman checks done at the time of each commit are essentially
> worthless.  Consider this example:

Unless you're bisecting a change that was in those 6 months of
commits. You could introduce a problem in one commit and fix it in the
next and have intermediate breakage.

But, like I said, maybe bisection isn't useful for the portage tree.