From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 22:35:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3ao9twfa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080523012857.acce6457.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (Christian Couder's message of "Fri, 23 May 2008 01:28:57 +0200")
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> When "git bisect" was first written, it was not possible to
> checkout a detached HEAD. The detached feature appeared latter.
> ...
> This patch makes "git bisect" checkout revisions to be tested on
> a detached HEAD. This simplifies the code a bit.
Yay!!
One potential worry/downside is "bisect visualize". Because <bisect>
branch was used for bisection, the _current_ commit has always been
indicated with a label. HEAD would not get any special label in gitk,
would it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-22 23:28 [PATCH 4/3] bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect Christian Couder
2008-05-23 5:35 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-05-23 7:08 ` Christian Couder
2008-05-23 15:14 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-05-23 15:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-24 10:51 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-24 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-25 0:37 ` Jeff King
2008-05-26 0:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-26 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
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