From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse" Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 16:20:31 +1200 Message-ID: <4A1F628F.9010407@vilain.net> References: <4A1C6B70.4050501@zytor.com> <4A1CACB2.7000702@vilain.net> <4A1CBF7A.3090708@zytor.com> <200905270726.59883.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <20090527211836.GA14841@localhost> <4A1DC7D8.2050601@vilain.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Clemens Buchacher , Christian Couder , "H. Peter Anvin" , Git Mailing List To: Ealdwulf Wuffinga X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 29 06:21:30 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 1M9tay-0005CX-LS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 06:21:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751125AbZE2EVT (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 00:21:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751124AbZE2EVS (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 00:21:18 -0400 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:48248 "EHLO mail.utsl.gen.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751024AbZE2EVS (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 00:21:18 -0400 Received: by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8C6B821C3ED; Fri, 29 May 2009 16:20:43 +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=-4.4 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 B377D21C2EB; Fri, 29 May 2009 16:20:32 +1200 (NZST) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) In-Reply-To: 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: Ealdwulf Wuffinga wrote: >> Sounds like interesting stuff, can you make a patch out of it? >> > > The code as it stands will actually work with an unmodified git. > What it doesn't yet have is a 'git-bisect'-like frontend, which is the only > part which would actually require modifying (or just adding to) git itself. > > It does already interface to the git plumbing, so you can try it out if you > don't mind using a slightly ungitlike interface. > > I assume it's not worth doing a patch which would just copy my tree > into the git source tree? > > There was also, last time I mentioned this on the list, some question > as to whether it was acceptable to add something written in python to > git. > I mean, can you port your algorithm from python to the git-bisect C source and therefore make something of benefit to existing 'git bisect' users ? Sam.