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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFE] allow git bisect to figure out in which revision a bug was
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:08:41 -0700
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> Why not simply automatically inverting the meaning of good and
> bad based on which commit is the ancestor of the other initially?

Because neither may be an ancestor of the other?