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From: "Frans Klaver" <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: reverse bisect
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:31:41 +0200
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:09:24 +0200, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> One catch is that the run command assumes a successful exit is "good",
> and anything else is "bad". Which makes:
>
>   git bisect run make test
>
> good for finding regressions, but is a little counterintuitive for the
> yes/no thing (a successful exit means "no").

Then you would require a script that inverts the result, no? From my
point of view it's either that or add an option telling bisect run how
to interpret the results. In the latter case you could still consider
adding the regression/improvement qualification to bisect start. It might
help getting the mind set right.

Frans