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Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:01:22 +0000 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 03:51:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Michael Gofron To: "git@vger.kernel.org" Message-ID: <968676664.8436621.1718941871973@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Git bisect skip Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <968676664.8436621.1718941871973.ref@mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.22407 YMailNorrin Hello, My question is can using `git bisect skip` cause a bisect to be indetermina= te and/or fail if the commits that are skipped couldn't have caused the iss= ue?=C2=A0 Consider if my commits are like this: 1P - 2P - 3B - 4P - 5P - 6B - 7B - 8F - 9F.=C2=A0 P for "Pass", B for "Broken", and F for "Fail".=C2=A0 Broken commits are commits that we can't create a build for but wouldn't ca= use the issue. Failing commits are failing because of a bug.=C2=A0 In this case, 8F caused the bug. If you tell git bisect that 1P is good and 9F is bad, bisect picks a commit= between the known newest Good commit (1P) and the known oldest Bad commit = (9F). 1P -- 2P - 3B - 4P - 5P - 6B - 7B - 8F - 9F G=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 B =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <------------------------------> Perhaps 4P. That builds and passes, so it marks that as Good. If it then goes to 6B which is a Broken commit and we do `git bisect skip` = what happens next? It seems from the code it uses a psuedo random number ge= nerator with bias to determine the next commit. Would it ever get in a stat= e where it can't determine the commit that caused the issue even if these b= roken commits would never cause an issue?=C2=A0 -Thank you Michael Gofron