From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-bisect(1) next after finding the commit
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 18:11:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261002221154.GA833115@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <asAbOSQ4BkuCTPY5@debian>
On Fri, Oct 02, 2026 at 11:49:01PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Is there a plumbing command for retrieving the bisected commit after
> a git-bisect(1) session has successfully found it (and of course before
> resetting the session)?
>
> I expected `git bisect next` would bring me to it, and then I'd rev-list
> HEAD -1, but it doesn't bring me to it.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think "git show bisect/bad" should work.
As the bisection progresses, we advance a single refs/bisect/bad from
the bottom of the range (the top is multiple refs/bisect/good-* refs).
So at the end, it should point to the blamed commit.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-02 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-02 21:49 git-bisect(1) next after finding the commit Alejandro Colomar
2026-10-02 22:11 ` Jeff King [this message]
2026-10-02 22:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-03 6:03 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-10-03 5:59 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-10-05 3:23 ` Jeff King
2026-10-05 12:37 ` Alejandro Colomar
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