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From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: More git bisect modes
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:17:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d8ce650903050217m2885692dkcef08ab2a5f60082@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090305190542.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

2009/3/5 Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>:
> Quoting John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>:
>
>> * An exponential back-off.  Typically I know that HEAD is broken, and
>> I don't know when it used to work.
>
> I thought 'git bisect' already worked with only bad commit(s) without any good commit for a long time?

I believe this makes it start from the very first commit.  This
probably much further back than most people would actually want to
start from.
(Also there seems to be a bug here, in that  'git bisect run' requires
you to have both a good and a bad commit.  Also the man page doesn't
document this)

John Tapsell

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-05 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-05  9:49 More git bisect modes John Tapsell
2009-03-05 10:05 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-03-05 10:17   ` John Tapsell [this message]
2009-03-05 10:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-05 11:09       ` bisect run, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-05 11:18         ` John Tapsell
2009-03-05 11:31           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-05 20:59     ` Christian Couder
2009-03-05 20:53 ` Christian Couder

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