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Subject: Re: [NON-TOY PATCH] git bisect: introduce 'fixed' and 'unfixed'
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Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
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Lea Wiemann wrote:
> Michael Haggerty wrote:
>> Therefore it should be easy to teach git-bisect to locate either kind of
>> transition, "bad" -> "good" or "good" -> "bad", depending only on where
>> the user places the original "good" and "bad" tags.
> 
> I think this is a good suggestion (though I haven't thought things 
> through).  Another idea is to add "old" and "new" (or something like 
> that) as aliases to "good" and "bad", since that's the only semantics 
> that the bisect labels actually seem to have.

"Before" and "After" the "Change" maybe?