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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.
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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:

>> Then, the next series can add a --bisect-head option (instead of
>> --update-ref) to allow the head to be varied (defaulting to
>> BISECT_HEAD) if not specified.
>
> To clarify: --bisect-head would default to HEAD if mode is checkout,
> to BISECT_HEAD if the mode is update-ref.

I am not sure if we ever want to allow updating anything but HEAD under
checkout mode, so I would rather think --bisect-head is _always_ invalid
under that mode. IOW, as I said in the previous message, these two are not
independent options.