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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [NON-TOY PATCH] git bisect: introduce 'fixed' and 'unfixed'
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:38:39 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> 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'.
> 
> It seems to me that your problem is that git-bisect requires the "good" 
> revision to be older than the "bad" one.  If this requirement were 
> removed, would there still be a need for "fixed" vs. "unfixed"?

Nope.

The thing that makes "fixed" and "bad" special is that _one_ commit 
introduced that.

Ciao,
Dscho