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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, j6t@kdbg.org,
	jnareb@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 5/8] bisect: introduce --no-checkout support into porcelain.
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 16:09:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3QvXv_gnAtw3qMCOdDyAUAFMYcf33ieP+HebvTf3SGAg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH3AnrpQZJprVtkNH1oeGXADzy1HA20xSTD8Cwpo3=ymOjgYhA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Christian Couder
>> <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 02 August 2011 16:41:13 Jon Seymour wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Christian Couder
>>>>
>>>> If I was to do this, I'd prefer to change uses of $BISECT_MODE with a
>>>> call to a function bisect_mode() that does the same thing.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I think it would be a good idea to have a bisect_mode() function.
>>> I don't like very much to blindly call some code when we might not need it.
>>>
>>
> Mmmm.
>
> Actually, there is a neater way to do this.
>
> I'll such use the existence of BISECT_HEAD to inform the
> implementation of bisect_mode().
>
> This avoids the need for a separate .git/BISECT_MODE file.

Yeah, but then you have to be careful of the fact that BISECT_HEAD
might have not been properly deleted or might have been created by the
user for other purposes.

Thanks,
Christian.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-03 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-02 11:28 [PATCH v13 0/8] bisect: Add support for --no-checkout option Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 11:28 ` [PATCH v13 1/8] bisect: move argument parsing before state modification Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 11:28 ` [PATCH v13 2/8] bisect: use && to connect statements that are deferred with eval Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v13 3/8] bisect: add tests to document expected behaviour in presence of broken trees Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v13 4/8] bisect: introduce support for --no-checkout option Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 12:16   ` Christian Couder
2011-08-02 14:42     ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 18:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-02 21:24     ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 22:05       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-02 22:19         ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v13 5/8] bisect: introduce --no-checkout support into porcelain Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 12:04   ` Christian Couder
2011-08-02 14:41     ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-03  5:27       ` Christian Couder
2011-08-03 12:46         ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-03 13:24           ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-03 14:09             ` Christian Couder [this message]
2011-08-03 15:13               ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-03 19:41                 ` Christian Couder
2011-08-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v13 6/8] bisect: add tests for the --no-checkout option Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v13 7/8] bisect: add documentation for " Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v13 8/8] bisect: change bisect function to update BISECT_HEAD, rather than HEAD Jon Seymour

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