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From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
To: "'Paolo Ornati'" <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Alternative to 'git bisect visualize'?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:45:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <05ad01c77ba8$cd753040$294b82ce@stuartm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070410100347.44657750@localhost>

From: Paolo Ornati [mailto:ornati@fastwebnet.it] 
> I think this should work:
> 
> 1) look at "git-bisect log" and take the last good/bad pair
> 
> 2) "cat .git/refs/heads/bisect" to see where you are now
> 
> 3) git-log --pretty=oneline GOOD..BAD
> 
> 4) search for the current commit (found in #2) with "/CURRENT_COMMIT",
> now move around and choose another commit to test
> 
> 5) git-reset --hard COMMIT_TO_TEST

That is exactly what I needed, many many thanks. I have moved off the
broken area of commits and am back into bisecting.

Where would be the appropriate place to submit this as a feature
request, to complement "git bisect visualize"; git, LKML or somewhere
else? I'm picturing an ncurses/menuconfig-style app.

..Stu


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-10 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-09 21:10 Alternative to 'git bisect visualize'? Stuart MacDonald
2007-04-10  8:03 ` Paolo Ornati
2007-04-10 19:45   ` Stuart MacDonald [this message]
2007-04-10 20:00     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-10 20:04       ` Stuart MacDonald

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