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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:48:08 +0200
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Hi,

On Saturday 30 July 2011 10:28:26 Jon Seymour wrote:
> For some bisection tasks, checking out the commit at each stage of the
> bisection process is unecessary or undesirable.
> 
> This series adds support for a --no-checkout[=<ref>] option to git-bisect.

Sorry but I didn't reply to your previous email when you asked about a "--no-
checkout[=<ref>]" compromise. I thought that Junio would reply and then I 
forgot about it.

My opinion is that if you really want to be able to use another ref, then 
there should be a special "--update-ref=<ref>" or "--use-ref=<ref>" option 
that is different from "--no-checkout".

"--no-checkout" looks like a boolean argument. And "--no-checkout[=<ref>]" may 
make the user think that this option will not checkout <ref>, and then it 
leads to the confusing question "but why would it checkout this f&#@ing ref in 
the first place?".

Thanks,
Christian.