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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 02:40:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrUgsawpwkkjO_BpPHyOaH7NsJNU-4mF97a6NAxCMB5aUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi-

I'm currently bisecting a Linux bug on my laptop.  The starting good
commit is v4.4-rc3 and the starting bad commit is v4.4-rc7.
Unfortunately, anything much older than v4.4-rc3 doesn't boot at all.

I'd like to say:

$ git bisect merge-to v4.4-rc3

or similar.  The effect would be that, rather than testing commits in
between the good and bad commits, it would test the result of merging
those commits with v4.4-rc3.

Obviously the syntax could be tweaked a lot, but I think the concept
could be quite handy.

Thanks,
Andy

             reply	other threads:[~2015-12-30 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-30 10:40 Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2015-12-30 18:54 ` Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base Christian Couder
2015-12-30 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-04 18:15   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-04 20:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-04 22:20       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-04 22:38         ` Junio C Hamano

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