Re: git bisect; is there a way to pick only from the children of a given commit

[Robert Stonehouse <rstonehouse@solarflare.com>]

Sean Estabrooks wrote:
 > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:12:16 +0000 (UTC)
 > Robert Stonehouse <rstonehouse@solarflare.com> wrote:
 >> I was surprised that git bisect was asking me to test commits on the 
featureB
 >> branch. I couldn't test the build target that was broken on branch 
featureB
 >> because it wasn't present in the code at that point.
 >
 > You can exclude the featureB branch by listing at good.  Git will 
know there
 > is no need to test anything on that branch:

In my toy example it is easy to identify featureB branch as being 
independent and marking it as good - but in a real repository it would 
be much harder as they might be many more merges.

I think if I changed my usage of git bisect good and bad to:
   good => build completes
           OR a revision that does not have the new build target
   bad  => new build target fails
then I think it will converge to the problem commit. So perhaps this was 
just an issue of semantics

Thanks for your help

-- 
Rob Stonehouse