Re: How to locate a commit?

John Colket <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:13:22 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.audacity.devel
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Well, that just shows how often I use sync-lock. 😉

Can they be switched ?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:15 AM Peter Sampson <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:27 PM John Colket <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Peter,
>>
>>   Before you do, also add "Move (or extend) the Select button over to the
>> right."
>>
>
> You can't do that John - because that little square to the right is the
> real-estate
> for the Sync-Lock icon.
>
> [image: image.png]
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> Peter.
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>> - John
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 6:56 AM John Colket <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Thanks Poke,
>>>
>>>    That is what I was looking for....
>>>
>>> - John
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 3:02 PM Pokechu22 <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The fastest way to locate a commit is to use git bisect, as it
>>>> requires you to check a logarithmic number of commits (so for 1000 commits,
>>>> you only need to check 10 or so of them).  It can be a bit complicated to
>>>> get started with, but https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect-lk2009 is a
>>>> pretty helpful guide.
>>>>
>>>> --Poke
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:55 AM John Colket <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> James,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to say that I'm glad you asked that question ☺ - but
>>>>> actually I'm not. 😉
>>>>>
>>>>> Well anyway, since you asked, some users have ended up unknowingly
>>>>> screwing up their project by accidentally bumping the track and/or pan
>>>>> controls whilst editing their projects.  So I have been looking into this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter has written up a proposal to address this issue.  I am sure you
>>>>> are aware of it.  See here:
>>>>> https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Proposal_Locking_and/or_Hiding_Pan_and_Gain_sliders
>>>>>
>>>>> Personally, I believe most of the suggestions are overkill, with the
>>>>> exceptions of the Visual Cues; I have written up my own thoughts on the
>>>>> adjoining Discussion page for that proposal.
>>>>>
>>>>> But here is what I was trying to look into.  There was a very, very
>>>>> subtle change between 2.4.2, and 3.0.0, that perhaps has gone unnoticed.
>>>>> That is when the cursor is drawn off of the Pan slider in a downward
>>>>> direction, that the highlight on its control remains. This in my view is a
>>>>> regression on 2.4.2, makes the visual cues just a little bit poorer, and
>>>>> makes the whole issue just a teensy bit harder to tackle.
>>>>>
>>>>> - John
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 12:40 PM James Crook <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If the artifacts are expired, you only have FossHub old audacity,
>>>>>> https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-devel-old.html for prebuilts.  So
>>>>>> you're back to building them yourself - if they were not changes around
>>>>>> release candidate time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which behaviour change are you hoping to track down?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --James.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 17:05, John Colket <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> James,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would like to search for an unknown commit that changed a certain
>>>>>>> behavior between 2.4.2 and 3.0.0.  So the Artifacts are by now
>>>>>>> well-expired.  Is there any way to travel in the "way back machine" so I
>>>>>>> can do a binary search ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - John
>>>>>>>
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