From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:31:53 GMT
Subject: Re: stgit bisect feature request
Message-ID: <20060906083153.GA19001@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <e7bda7770609051649j56a92085i8d8a73ab12004c43@mail.gmail.com>

On 2006-09-06 01:49:15 +0200, Torgil Svensson wrote:

> 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