From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:18:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63wgap10.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pruqfc59.wl%cworth@cworth.org
Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
> This error message is very confusing---it doesn't tell the user
> anything about how to fix the situation. And the actual fix
> for the situation ("git bisect reset") does a checkout of a
> potentially random branch, (compared to what the user wants to
> be on for the bisect she is starting).
The message itself refers to a Cogito "feature" and I suspect
that removing the check and refusal would confuse Cogito. While
I think the patch itself is Ok for us, we may want to wait a bit
for a while. until Cogito users all die out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-21 5:20 bisect: "won't bisect on seeked tree" Mike Galbraith
2008-02-21 5:33 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-02-21 5:39 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-21 5:43 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-02-21 6:00 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-21 17:32 ` [PATCH] Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure Carl Worth
2008-02-22 17:18 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-23 9:21 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-02-23 18:33 ` Carl Worth
2008-02-23 22:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-24 1:14 ` Carl Worth
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