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Re: stgit bisect feature request

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Sep 6, 2006, 08:31 UTC
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On 2006-09-06 01:49:15 +0200, Torgil Svensson wrote:
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> I think i'd be nice if stgit wraps bisect and you could write
>
> $ stg bisect start
> $ stg bisect bad
> $ stg bisect good ORIG_HEAD
>
> and after bisect checks out the files it pushes the current stack as
> if you had used stg pull at this point

Yes, this sounds very useful for bisecting when you can't test the old revisions as-is, e.g. because you have to patch for an unrelated bug, or because you need a patch to trigger the problem.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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