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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse"
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 07:26:59 +0200
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Cc: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Le Wednesday 27 May 2009, H. Peter Anvin a =C3=A9crit :
> Sam Vilain wrote:
> > Oh, yes.  And another thing: 'git bisect run' / 'git bisect skip'
> > doesn't do a very good job of skipping around broken commits (ie wh=
en
> > the script returns 126).  It just seems to move to the next one; it
> > would be much better IMHO to first try the commit 1/3rd of the way =
into
> > the range, then if that fails, the commit 2/3rd of the way through =
it,
> > etc.
>
> I posted about that last year:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=3Dgit&i=3D48F3DCEB.1060803@zytor.com
>
> At the time, git bisect was still done in the shell and it was deemed
> too difficult.

Yeah, this was also asked by Ingo, and yeah, I think it should be easie=
r to=20
do now that most of the "git bisect next" shell code has been ported to=
 C.

I will try to have a look at it soon.

Best regards,
Christian.