From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 07:08:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect
Message-ID: <200805230908.24988.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3ao9twfa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Le vendredi 23 mai 2008, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> > When "git bisect" was first written, it was not possible to
> > checkout a detached HEAD. The detached feature appeared latter.
> > ...
> > This patch makes "git bisect" checkout revisions to be tested on
> > a detached HEAD. This simplifies the code a bit.
>
> Yay!!
>
> One potential worry/downside is "bisect visualize".  Because <bisect>
> branch was used for bisection, the _current_ commit has always been
> indicated with a label.  HEAD would not get any special label in gitk,
> would it?

You are probably right. I will have a look at that.

Thanks,
Christian.