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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: git bisect should accept "paths-to-be-excluded"
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:03:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1u9hPFcbftpacDFdp27Jmp0YLGbpHPP12uEtjzEmnPQA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqvc1z6eoo.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In practice though, as git bisect is a kind of binary search, if what
>> you want to exclude is exclusively touched by half the commits, it
>> will only add one more bisection step if you don't exclude it.
>
> Actually, I think the same remark would apply to any other Git command
> that deal with a set of revisions. If you want to review code with "git
> log -p", but you don't care about a subdirectory, you may want a "git
> log -p --ignore-dir foo/" or so, too.

Yeah, and there was a patch series about that 2 years ago:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182830/

> And then, the "it's logarithmic" argument doesn't work anymore ;-).

Sure.

Best regards,
Christian.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-17  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-16 12:39 RFC: git bisect should accept "paths-to-be-excluded" Toralf Förster
2013-09-17  7:26 ` Christian Couder
2013-09-17  8:21   ` Matthieu Moy
2013-09-17  9:03     ` Christian Couder [this message]
2013-09-17 11:45       ` Duy Nguyen
2013-09-17 17:02         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-17 18:12           ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2013-09-17 19:04             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-17 19:41               ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2013-09-17 20:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-18  2:22           ` Duy Nguyen
2013-11-20  1:41           ` [PATCH] Support pathspec magic :(exclude) and its short form :- Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-11-20 23:48             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-21  2:10               ` Duy Nguyen
2013-11-21 18:43                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-17 16:23   ` RFC: git bisect should accept "paths-to-be-excluded" Toralf Förster

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