Re: git bisect enhancements?

From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Date: Nov 30, 2005, 22:07 UTC
Message-ID: <1133388429.30767.37.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vu0dtokqp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:04, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> writes:
> 
> > ...  I want to "bump" the bisect point
> > up two commits and _then_ build.
> >
> > So, I'm proposing something like:
> >
> >     $ git bisect bump +<n>
> >     $ git bisect bump -<n>
> >
> > To move the bisection point "up" or "down" a commit chain.
> 
> Hmph.  Doesn't "bisect good" or "bisect bad" let you explicitly
> say which one is good or bad, instead of just taking what it
> suggests as the next midpoint?

Sure. But I'm proposing to alter the new bisection middle point. I don't know its status yet. I am just angling on hedging my bets of a "good midpoint" choice by finding something that is likely to be more stable than the proposed midpoint.

jdl