From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:21:59 GMT
Subject: Re: git-bisect feature suggestion: "git-bisect diff"
Message-ID: <20071207112159.GA11035@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsrq3iox.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>


* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>  (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