From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [TOY PATCH] git bisect: introduce 'fixed' and 'unfixed' Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:50:38 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <20080624163810.GA4654@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 24 18:53:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KBBly-0003LR-3x for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:53:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751660AbYFXQwl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:52:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753081AbYFXQwl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:52:41 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55516 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751615AbYFXQwl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:52:41 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2008 16:52:39 -0000 Received: from almond.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO almond.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.241] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 24 Jun 2008 18:52:39 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19XTGcVYidXZHhrqlVRiNs0Qvz+LYWdCZsVrW77vz I62W+ntH8fWDcO X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <20080624163810.GA4654@sigill.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:17:18PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > When you look for a fix instead of a regression, it can be quite hard > > to twist your brain into choosing the correct bisect command between > > 'git bisect bad' and 'git bisect good'. > > > > So introduce the commands 'git bisect fixed' and 'git bisect unfixed'. > > Thanks. This just bit me the other day, and I thought of the same > solution. I think it might be worth a "non-toy" patch. Okay, that's 3 people who I take the courage from to turn this into a proper patch. Ciao, Dscho