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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: More git bisect modes
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:59:06 +0100
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Le jeudi 5 mars 2009, John Tapsell a =C3=A9crit :
> 2009/3/5 Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>:
> > Quoting John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>:
> >> * An exponential back-off. =C2=A0Typically I know that HEAD is bro=
ken, and
> >> I don't know when it used to work.
> >
> > I thought 'git bisect' already worked with only bad commit(s) witho=
ut
> > any good commit for a long time?
>
> I believe this makes it start from the very first commit.  This
> probably much further back than most people would actually want to
> start from.
> (Also there seems to be a bug here, in that  'git bisect run' require=
s
> you to have both a good and a bad commit.  Also the man page doesn't
> document this)

Yeah you are right. Do you want to try to fix this bug ?

Thanks in advance,
Christian.