From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Tapsell Subject: Re: More git bisect modes Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:17:22 +0000 Message-ID: <43d8ce650903050217m2885692dkcef08ab2a5f60082@mail.gmail.com> References: <43d8ce650903050149u4ca98444w28efceb9084efa68@mail.gmail.com> <20090305190542.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git Mailing List To: Nanako Shiraishi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 05 11:19:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LfAfI-0001wZ-Oz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:18:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754133AbZCEKRZ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 05:17:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754035AbZCEKRZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 05:17:25 -0500 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.170]:28357 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752826AbZCEKRY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 05:17:24 -0500 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so4464909wfa.4 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:17:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=9NJx2ikONak2A0M3iO1sFu2sDP+AUWvTtMrQZe+5TGg=; b=Yj06UQEVw/XhMPnRdfv/IfIgMtHlT4JCVl4AYwWh0HfFWTpKQdEFtEOJK+gd5+4uQM wunM9+gCwy5PG9FaPFT3FjKgeXYevT+4LdxvrIbQ8XTSa++lFw99P2c38luG3vqpgyzl KanyIe7hj1YvX85vC3XjaeTmwVnZShEUyXIDY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=s28mh6q9GaBUfbOSDIRy3BaZfFN7tLzEEwaHccO6y80z6FDkT/pThm4WAZbqLzD9T4 Od0pdQ6CIgyS7n8viYlpud2WTmkmwRMqUE2MqXN/o+QRcw/Rci/fkwSt/tF+EZNkRhTv GJV38XmH/vBVClm02OuA0Ny8Iu8DRmZcFP+UE= Received: by 10.142.141.21 with SMTP id o21mr464673wfd.33.1236248242925; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:17:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090305190542.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/3/5 Nanako Shiraishi : > Quoting John Tapsell : > >> * An exponential back-off. =C2=A0Typically I know that HEAD is broke= n, 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