From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: RFE: "git bisect reverse" Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:21:36 -0700 Message-ID: <4A1C6B70.4050501@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 27 00:22:01 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 1M9520-0003qJ-I6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 00:22:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758604AbZEZWVk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 18:21:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758037AbZEZWVk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 18:21:40 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43931 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757606AbZEZWVj (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 18:21:39 -0400 Received: from anacreon.sc.intel.com (hpa@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n4QMLbQb006410 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 26 May 2009 15:21:40 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/9393/Tue May 26 03:17:55 2009 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I would like to request the following feature: "git bisect reverse" ... does exactly the same thing as "git bisect start", except that it flips the meaning of "good" and "bad". It is mentally fairly taxing to do a reverse bisection (looking for an antiregression) when one has to flip the meaning of "good" and "bad" (which are very loaded words to our psyche), and it's even worse to try to get a user to do it... -hpa