From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse" Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:02 +1200 Message-ID: <4A1CACB2.7000702@vilain.net> References: <4A1C6B70.4050501@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: "H. Peter Anvin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 27 05:00:29 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 1M99NV-0002TV-1U for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 05:00:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755609AbZE0DAV (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 23:00:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755545AbZE0DAU (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 23:00:20 -0400 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:49613 "EHLO mail.utsl.gen.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755364AbZE0DAT (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 23:00:19 -0400 Received: by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5DD4021C47E; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:10 +1200 (NZST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mail.musashi.utsl.gen.nz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from [192.168.2.22] (leibniz.catalyst.net.nz [202.78.240.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0E3C421C3A5; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:05 +1200 (NZST) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) In-Reply-To: <4A1C6B70.4050501@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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... > Oh, yes. And another thing: 'git bisect run' / 'git bisect skip' doesn't do a very good job of skipping around broken commits (ie when the script returns 126). It just seems to move to the next one; it would be much better IMHO to first try the commit 1/3rd of the way into the range, then if that fails, the commit 2/3rd of the way through it, etc. Sam.