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From: Andrew Garber <andrew@andrewgarber.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: "Johannes Sixt" <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why can't I use git-bisect to find the first *good* commit?
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:12:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinuH4Ut+jtdqRfFrNeXA6JmBK2i0ddCcz4vV6JC@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqr59r6sg5.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

> Then which commit do you specify as "good"?

Any ancestral commit *on the same branch* which is know to be working.
Isn't the whole point of git bisect is to do binary search through
time? It only makes sense to me to use it on a single branch at a
time. Perhaps you could give a concrete example of where you could use
it for multiple branches simultaneously?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-28 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-28  9:32 Why can't I use git-bisect to find the first *good* commit? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-03-28 10:39 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-03-28 12:22 ` code.sculptor
2011-03-28 12:58   ` Matthieu Moy
2011-03-28 12:39 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
2011-03-28 14:04   ` Christian Couder
2011-03-28 14:29 ` Andrew Garber
2011-03-28 14:40   ` Johannes Sixt
2011-03-28 17:18     ` Andrew Garber
2011-03-28 17:33       ` Matthieu Moy
2011-03-28 17:45         ` Andrew Garber
2011-03-28 17:55           ` Matthieu Moy
2011-03-28 18:12             ` Andrew Garber [this message]
2011-03-28 18:23               ` Matthieu Moy
2011-03-28 18:57                 ` demerphq
2011-03-28 19:12                   ` Andrew Garber
2011-03-28 19:40                     ` Matthieu Moy
2011-03-28 20:12                       ` Andrew Garber
2011-03-28 20:25                         ` Jeff King
2011-03-28 21:25                           ` Jeff King
2011-03-28 20:37                         ` Matthieu Moy
2011-03-29 10:54                   ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-05-22 19:41 ` Michael Witten

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