From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rfe: bisecting with a tristate
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:39:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707242339.07980.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241818450.14781@racer.site>
tisdag 24 juli 2007 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
> And why exactly do you want to make it hard on the user?
Nah, I don't want to do that. Just thinking aloud ;-)
> Imagine this history:
>
> A - B - broken - bad - C
>
> Now you bisect. It goes to "broken". You compile. Darn, does not
> compile. Why not have a "git bisect dunno", which considers only the
> _rest_ of the commits for the next bisection point? When it finally found
> the "bad" one, it has to say it broke somewhere between "B..bad".
>
> Now that would be user friendly, wouldn't it?
It would work fine.
-- robin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-24 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 13:21 rfe: bisecting with a tristate Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-24 13:40 ` Sean
2007-07-24 13:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-24 17:07 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-24 17:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-24 21:39 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]
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