From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:07:39 GMT
Subject: Re: git-bisect feature suggestion: "git-bisect diff"
Message-ID: <20071207220738.GA23535@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vprxiyxfj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:03:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Sure, but regular aliases already do that. The point of making it a
> > "builtin" alias is that we can depend on it being there. But who is
> > depending?
> 
> Nobody is depending.
> 
> And I think the reason nobody depends on it is because there is no
> compelling reason to.  Perhaps the behaviour is not useful enough.  It
> surely is the case for "bisect view".

Right, which leads to my (perhaps subtle) point that the builtin alias
hack is just what you said elsewhere: a cute hack. IOW, I am slightly
NAKing inclusion of it in master (OTOH, I really don't see what it could
_hurt_, so maybe somebody could find a use for it that we didn't think
of).

-Peff