From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Symonds" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:53:29 +1000 Message-ID: References: <20071014142826.8caa0a9f.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <471302D2.6010405@trolltech.com> <200710150902.52653.johan@herland.net> <7EDF99A4-00BD-4F89-A31F-DCA33723CDD5@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Johan Herland" , git@vger.kernel.org, "Marius Storm-Olsen" , "David Kastrup" , "Christian Couder" , "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?=" , "Junio Hamano" , "Johannes Schindelin" To: "Wincent Colaiuta" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 15 13:55:04 2007 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 1IhOVz-00008K-FY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:53:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757383AbXJOLxc convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:53:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757563AbXJOLxc (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:53:32 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.238]:44735 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756996AbXJOLxb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:53:31 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so874762nze for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:53:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=p+JO56b0iEqe3BUHQaIw+14XF5la3a04lCn1sTs+OGU=; b=czXLAXwjVknGbrOgjhtDSx5adyF42+Kn60GpvvC21A6IxDQgC0qQL7rzd8rpxA8qjDxkcfAJM8pUxi9lL3jiSepi+/QVnL8MwGdFklRDl9gIS5yEJstg3RgGrYQ5inlIZyqkW7bAZsIdT0+oA/x/JPDSQnHy2h1cx2JDoSOgruU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=b/8myNDzzPrlimaqdlLQEjE6lY53i3e3t6GzHs3PyfgMUJx6/qefcIFt7mY/Wl70MiTXRu2yZJUSGNFLvMl3aID2klCANqKp3NSH5yqJfRJuwuz+z0ZeMf884YuJunCz5tYOKqTIxOqG1NJGwkAgYTmpZQkK+Qj83BLaUTmyyGQ= Received: by 10.141.115.6 with SMTP id s6mr2594801rvm.1192449209912; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.153.4 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:53:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7EDF99A4-00BD-4F89-A31F-DCA33723CDD5@wincent.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 15/10/2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > El 15/10/2007, a las 9:02, Johan Herland escribi=F3: > > > On Monday 15 October 2007, David Symonds wrote: > >> On 15/10/2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > >>> David Kastrup said the following on 14.10.2007 19:48: > >>>> > >>>> "unknown" clearly is much better than "dunno" though even if my = own > >>>> favorite would be "undecided". > >>> > >>> What then about a good'ol programming favorite, "void"? :-) > >> > >> "skip"? That would make semantic sense, right? > > > > ...or we could go all spaghetti western, and call it "ugly". > > > > (as in "git-bisect [the , the and the ]") > > > Yes, it's funny, but I don't think an SCM interface is a place for > jokes or puns. Git already has one big tongue-in-cheek attribute: > it's name, so let's leave it at that. > That's also why I suggested "skip"; you might not be able to test a particular commit, but you might also not *want* to test a particular commit for some reason. Dave.