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From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] bisect: write about `bisect next` in documentation
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:45:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D1A873.1090709@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqoab3jokp.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi,

On 02/26/2016 07:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> But I wonder if it is safe and sane to encourage "checking out other
> branches during a bisect session." as you cannot tell what other
> crazy things they will do while on "other branches".  I do not think
> we even try to (and I do not think we should) handle a case where
> the user tries to merge another branch, sees conflicts and says
> "bisect next" without cleaning up, for example.

I rephrase it as follows to not encourage checking out another branch
(or commit ;]) but to mention that it works to get back if someone
accidentally did it.

--8<--8<--8<--

Bisect next
~~~~~~~~~~~

In case you have marked a commit as bad but you do not know a good
commit, you do not have to crawl through the commit history yourself to
find a good commit. Simply issue the command:

------------
$ git bisect next
------------

This command is also handy when you accidentally checked out another
commit during a bisection. It computes the commit for the bisection
and checks it out again.

-->8-->8-->8--

Is that better?

Thanks,
Stephan

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-27 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-26  2:04 [PATCH 00/16] git bisect improvements Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 01/16] bisect: write about `bisect next` in documentation Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  8:02   ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-26 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-27 13:45     ` Stephan Beyer [this message]
2016-02-27 18:03       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-27 19:38         ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-28 18:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 02/16] bisect: add test for the bisect algorithm Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  6:53   ` Christian Couder
2016-02-26 21:38     ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-27 11:40       ` Christian Couder
2016-02-27 12:42         ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 03/16] bisect: make bisect compile if DEBUG_BISECT is set Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 04/16] bisect: make algorithm behavior independent of DEBUG_BISECT Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 05/16] bisect: get rid of recursion in count_distance() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 06/16] bisect: use struct node_data array instead of int array Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 07/16] bisect: replace clear_distance() by unique markers Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 08/16] bisect: use commit instead of commit list as arguments when appropriate Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  3:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 09/16] bisect: extract get_distance() function from code duplication Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 10/16] bisect: introduce distance_direction() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 11/16] bisect: make total number of commits global Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 12/16] bisect: rename count_distance() to compute_weight() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 13/16] bisect: prepare for different algorithms based on find_all Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 14/16] bisect: use a modified breadth-first search to find relevant weights Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  3:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-26 20:55     ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 15/16] bisect: compute best bisection in compute_relevant_weights() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 16/16] bisect: get back halfway shortcut Stephan Beyer
2016-03-20 18:50 ` [PATCH 00/16] git bisect improvements Pranit Bauva
2016-03-21 22:22   ` Stephan Beyer
2016-03-22  7:35     ` Christian Couder
2016-03-22 11:35     ` Pranit Bauva

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