From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: git-bisect feature suggestion: "git-bisect diff" Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:07:39 -0500 Message-ID: <20071207220738.GA23535@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20071207093439.GA21896@elte.hu> <7v63za4yic.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwsrq3iox.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071207213414.GA11688@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20071207213541.GA11723@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vtzmuyyc3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071207215514.GA11784@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vprxiyxfj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 07 23:08:09 2007 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 1J0lMb-0006Ws-Ug for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:08:06 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755192AbXLGWHn (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:07:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755223AbXLGWHm (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:07:42 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:3272 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754234AbXLGWHl (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:07:41 -0500 Received: (qmail 13707 invoked by uid 111); 7 Dec 2007 22:07:40 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:07:40 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:07:39 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vprxiyxfj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:03:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Sure, but regular aliases already do that. The point of making it a > > "builtin" alias is that we can depend on it being there. But who is > > depending? > > Nobody is depending. > > And I think the reason nobody depends on it is because there is no > compelling reason to. Perhaps the behaviour is not useful enough. It > surely is the case for "bisect view". Right, which leads to my (perhaps subtle) point that the builtin alias hack is just what you said elsewhere: a cute hack. IOW, I am slightly NAKing inclusion of it in master (OTOH, I really don't see what it could _hurt_, so maybe somebody could find a use for it that we didn't think of). -Peff