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Jeff King schrieb:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:17:18PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
>> When you look for a fix instead of a regression, it can be quite hard
>> to twist your brain into choosing the correct bisect command between
>> 'git bisect bad' and 'git bisect good'.
>>
>> So introduce the commands 'git bisect fixed' and 'git bisect unfixed'.
> 
> Thanks. This just bit me the other day, and I thought of the same
> solution. I think it might be worth a "non-toy" patch.

Maybe "notfixed" is a better wording than "unfixed".