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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] use '--bisect-refs' as bisect rev machinery
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:25:08 -0800
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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

> So I suggest to use '--bisect-refs' instead of '--bisect' as the new
> bisect revision machinery option, because otherwise I think we get a
> regression when we call "git rev-list --bisect BAD --not GOOD" and we
> are already bisecting with bisect refs different than BAD and GOOD.
> This also simplifies the code a little bit.

Just to make sure that I read you correctly, do you mean that Linus now
would say:

    $ git bisect ...
    ... inside bisect session
    $ gitk --bisect-refs arch/x86