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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bisect: test merge base if good rev is not an ancestor of bad rev
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:13:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4p6xpkfk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd4llpkxq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:02:09 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I have not looked at your implementation, but I do not think:

Sheesh.  "I *do* think"...

>  - The current one is not "fully reliable"; the user needs to know what
>    he is doing.  You might call it "prone to user errors".
>
>  - "Test this merge-base before going forward, please" will add typically
>    only one round of check (if you have more merge bases between good and
>    bad, you need to test all of them are good to be sure), so it is not
>    "slower nor more complex".

and I think it is a reasonable thing to do.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-10 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-10  3:41 [PATCH] bisect: test merge base if good rev is not an ancestor of bad rev Christian Couder
2008-07-10 10:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 19:26   ` Christian Couder
2008-07-10 20:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 20:13       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-10 22:36       ` Christian Couder
2008-07-10 22:38         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 23:21           ` Christian Couder
2008-07-10 23:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 23:45             ` Christian Couder
2008-07-10 23:50               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 23:59             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11  6:51               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-11 11:21                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 23:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-13  6:37         ` Christian Couder
2008-07-13 13:14           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-22  6:15             ` Christian Couder

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