From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [TOY PATCH] git bisect: introduce 'fixed' and 'unfixed' Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:38:10 -0400 Message-ID: <20080624163810.GA4654@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 24 18:39:19 2008 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 1KBBXz-0005JL-JF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:39:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752655AbYFXQiN (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:38:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752235AbYFXQiN (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:38:13 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:3375 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751816AbYFXQiM (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:38:12 -0400 Received: (qmail 4550 invoked by uid 111); 24 Jun 2008 16:38:11 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:38:11 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:38:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:17:18PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > When you look for a fix instead of a regression, it can be quite hard > to twist your brain into choosing the correct bisect command between > 'git bisect bad' and 'git bisect good'. > > So introduce the commands 'git bisect fixed' and 'git bisect unfixed'. Thanks. This just bit me the other day, and I thought of the same solution. I think it might be worth a "non-toy" patch. -Peff