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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Aaron S. Meurer" <asmeurer@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>,
	"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git bisect problems/ideas
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:04:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101212304.36741.j6t@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikG6Ft3Y922Aaakf28cnYs26PcRHoq9GSNj04mu@mail.gmail.com>

On Freitag, 21. Januar 2011, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <asmeurer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If no, I think --reverse is actually a suitable fix.
>
> Yeah, but I think that what Dscho started was probably better. The
> problem is just that it is not so simple to implement and no one yet
> has been interested enough or took enough time to finish it.

Let me throw in an idea:

Add two new sub-commands:

* 'git bisect regression': this is a synonym for 'git bisect start'.

* 'git bisect improvement': this also starts a bisection, but subsequently the 
operation of 'git bisect good' and 'git bisect bad' is reversed.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-15  7:33 git bisect problems/ideas Aaron S. Meurer
2011-01-17  9:38 ` Christian Couder
2011-01-17 11:51   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-17 13:38     ` SZEDER Gábor
2011-01-17 20:55       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-18  9:05         ` Christian Couder
2011-01-17 18:27     ` Aaron S. Meurer
2011-01-17 18:23   ` Aaron S. Meurer
2011-01-18  9:04     ` Christian Couder
2011-01-18 18:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-19 13:15         ` Christian Couder
2011-01-19 19:15         ` Aaron S. Meurer
2011-01-19 19:29           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-19 19:44       ` Aaron S. Meurer
2011-01-21 13:18         ` Christian Couder
2011-01-21 22:04           ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2011-01-22 14:52             ` Jakub Narebski

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