We're in the process of a slow conversion from maintaining files withRCS to mostly keeping them in Mercurial repositories,which has wound up making me think about how we want to structure themand which of our existing directory areas are easy to convert. As aresult of this, I have an observation: modern whole-directory VCSeschange how sysadmins want to lay out files and directories.

In the old days of single-file version control, it made perfect sense togroup files together in directories by function or

I know I'm late to the party on this one, but I just used gitbisect for the first time today in order to hunt down where akernel bug started showing up. Since there are more kernel bugs in my future, here are some things that I want toremember about the process and other random comments.

(I'll probably have more later when I do it again.)

First, I have to say that the whole process really is both cool andaddictive, and it works.