From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] use '--bisect-refs' as bisect rev machinery option Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:35:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20091104034312.4545.2176.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <7vljimgnaz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Christian Couder , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 04 19:35:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N5ki5-0004Tp-3o for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:35:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757802AbZKDSfr (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:35:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757738AbZKDSfq (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:35:46 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34028 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757690AbZKDSfq (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:35:46 -0500 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id nA4IZlfS029039 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:35:49 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id nA4IZlpZ006181; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:35:47 -0800 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.961 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes, it is a behavioral change, but is it a bad one? .. and perhaps we could introduce --bisect-refs as the "old behavior" of '--bisect' to git rev-list? I kind of suspect that it is unlikely that people are using 'git rev-list --bisect' while _inside_ a bisection, but then wanting to bisect someting that is outside the set of commits we're currently actively bisecting. But maybe I'm wrong. Linus