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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
To: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse"
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:11:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905272211.59542.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A1CACB2.7000702@vilain.net>

Le Wednesday 27 May 2009, Sam Vilain a écrit :
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > I would like to request the following feature:
> >
> > "git bisect reverse"
> >
> > ... does exactly the same thing as "git bisect start", except that it
> > flips the meaning of "good" and "bad".  It is mentally fairly taxing to
> > do a reverse bisection (looking for an antiregression) when one has to
> > flip the meaning of "good" and "bad" (which are very loaded words to
> > our psyche), and it's even worse to try to get a user to do it...
>
> Oh, yes.  And another thing: 'git bisect run' / 'git bisect skip'
> doesn't do a very good job of skipping around broken commits (ie when
> the script returns 126).

s/126/125/

> 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.

Regards,
Christian.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-26 22:21 RFE: "git bisect reverse" H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-27  3:00 ` Sam Vilain
2009-05-27  4:20   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-27  5:26     ` Christian Couder
2009-05-27 21:11       ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-27 21:18         ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-05-27 22:07           ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-27 23:08             ` Sam Vilain
2009-05-28 20:29               ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-29  4:20                 ` Sam Vilain
2009-05-31 22:41                   ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-28  3:11             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-28 21:07               ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-28 21:54                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-31 22:18                   ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-27 20:11   ` Christian Couder [this message]
2009-05-27  8:22 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-05-27 20:26   ` Matthieu Moy

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