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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git bisect enhancements?
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:07:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133388429.30767.37.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vu0dtokqp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> writes:
> 
> > ...  I want to "bump" the bisect point
> > up two commits and _then_ build.
> >
> > So, I'm proposing something like:
> >
> >     $ git bisect bump +<n>
> >     $ git bisect bump -<n>
> >
> > To move the bisection point "up" or "down" a commit chain.
> 
> Hmph.  Doesn't "bisect good" or "bisect bad" let you explicitly
> say which one is good or bad, instead of just taking what it
> suggests as the next midpoint?

Sure.  But I'm proposing to alter the new bisection
middle point.  I don't know its status yet.  I am
just angling on hedging my bets of a "good midpoint"
choice by finding something that is likely to be
more stable than the proposed midpoint.

jdl

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-30 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-30 21:36 git bisect enhancements? Jon Loeliger
2005-11-30 22:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-30 22:07   ` Jon Loeliger [this message]
2005-11-30 22:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-30 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-30 23:32 ` Linus Torvalds

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