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From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Subject: Re: rfe: bisecting with a tristate
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:39:06 +0200
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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