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Re: git-bisect feature suggestion: "git-bisect diff"

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IMIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date
Dec 7, 2007, 11:21 UTC
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* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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>  (1) When no option is given, and $DISPLAY is set, it continues to
>      spawn gitk as before;
> 
>  (2) When no option is given, and $DISPLAY is unset, "git log" is run
>      to show the range of commits between the bad one and the good 
>      ones;
> 
>  (3) If only "-flag" options are given, "git log <options>" is run.
>      E.g. "git bisect visualize --stat"
> 
>  (4) Otherwise, all of the given options are taken as the initial part
>      of the command line and the commit range expression is given to 
>      that command.  E.g. "git bisect visualize tig" will run "tig" 
>      history viewer to show between the bad one and the good ones.

nice. One small detail though: i frequently ssh to testboxes that have DISPLAY set but i want text output. So git-bisect view --text should be a special-case perhaps?

	Ingo
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  1. Ingo MolnarDec 7, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2007
  4. Ingo MolnarDec 7, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2007
  6. Ingo MolnarDec 7, 2007
  7. Jeff KingDec 7, 2007
  8. Jeff KingDec 7, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2007
  10. Jeff KingDec 7, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2007
  12. Jeff KingDec 7, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2007
  14. Christian CouderDec 8, 2007
  15. Ingo MolnarDec 8, 2007
  16. git-bisect run make -j64 kernel/ (was Re: git-bisect feature suggestion: "git-bisect diff")Christian Couder, Dec 9, 2007
  17. Ingo MolnarDec 12, 2007
  18. Ingo MolnarDec 11, 2007
  19. Pierre HabouzitDec 11, 2007
  20. Jakub NarebskiDec 11, 2007
  21. Pierre HabouzitDec 11, 2007
  22. Jeff KingDec 11, 2007
  23. Jeff KingDec 11, 2007
  24. Ingo MolnarDec 11, 2007
  25. Invert numbers and names in the git-shortlog summary mode.Pierre Habouzit, Dec 11, 2007
  26. Ingo MolnarDec 11, 2007
  27. Pierre HabouzitDec 11, 2007
  28. Nicolas PitreDec 11, 2007
  29. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2007
  30. Ingo MolnarDec 11, 2007
  31. Pierre HabouzitDec 11, 2007
  32. Pierre HabouzitDec 11, 2007
  33. Ingo MolnarDec 11, 2007
  34. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2007
  35. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2007
  36. Ingo MolnarDec 11, 2007

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