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From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-rev-list: "--bisect" flag
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 10:18:45 +1000
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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.