From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-rev-list: "--bisect" flag
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 10:18:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cfc403205061817181e4d6d5e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506172306210.2268@ppc970.osdl.org>
On 6/18/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> Ok, I just added a feature to "git-rev-list" that I hereby nominate to be
> the coolest feature ever, namely the "--bisect" flag, which basically
> tries to split the list of revisions in two, and prints out just the "most
> middle" commit.
>
Perhaps in answering this question, you can help me understand the
intended behaviour of your bisection algorithm a little better. The
question is this: for your purposes, given a rev-list output, why not
simply use the literal middle element of the outputed list?
jon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-19 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-18 6:31 git-rev-list: "--bisect" flag Linus Torvalds
2005-06-19 0:18 ` Jon Seymour [this message]
2005-06-19 3:38 ` Jan Harkes
2005-06-19 4:07 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-19 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-19 5:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-19 5:05 ` David Lang
2005-06-19 5:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-19 10:15 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-19 14:41 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-19 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-19 17:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-06-19 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-19 19:55 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-20 3:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-20 3:27 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-20 3:30 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-20 10:29 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-20 14:37 ` Jon Seymour
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=2cfc403205061817181e4d6d5e@mail.gmail.com \
--to=jon.seymour@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=jon@blackcubes.dyndns.org \
--cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).