From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse" Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:26:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4A1C6B70.4050501@zytor.com> <20090527172233.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Git Mailing List To: Nanako Shiraishi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 27 22:28:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M9Pjj-0001fg-0W for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 22:28:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752340AbZE0U2Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751643AbZE0U2P (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:15 -0400 Received: from harmonie.imag.fr ([147.171.130.40]:40500 "EHLO harmonie.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751405AbZE0U2P (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:15 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by harmonie.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4RKQ2iq021559; Wed, 27 May 2009 22:26:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1M9PhJ-0002KX-Si; Wed, 27 May 2009 22:26:01 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M9PhJ-0000lS-RL; Wed, 27 May 2009 22:26:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090527172233.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> (Nanako Shiraishi's message of "Wed\, 27 May 2009 17\:22\:33 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (harmonie.imag.fr [147.171.130.40]); Wed, 27 May 2009 22:26:02 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nanako Shiraishi writes: > Quoting "H. Peter Anvin" : > >> I would like to request the following feature: >> >> "git bisect reverse" >> >> ... does exactly the same thing as "git bisect start", except that it >> flips the meaning of "good" and "bad". It is mentally fairly taxing to >> do a reverse bisection (looking for an antiregression) when one has to >> flip the meaning of "good" and "bad" (which are very loaded words to our >> psyche), and it's even worse to try to get a user to do it... > > There was a discussion on "fixed" and "unfixed" aliases to find a commit that fixed an old breakage. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063/focus=86563 I think the bzr "bisect" plugin uses "yes" and "no" instead for this reason. I find it mentally easier to adapt it to both cases ("yes, it's fixed" or "yes, it's broken" depending on what you search). -- Matthieu