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Re: More git bisect modes

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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date
Mar 5, 2009, 20:59 UTC
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<200903052159.06537.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
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Le jeudi 5 mars 2009, John Tapsell a écrit :
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> 2009/3/5 Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>:
> > Quoting John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>:
> >> * An exponential back-off.  Typically I know that HEAD is broken, and
> >> I don't know when it used to work.
> >
> > I thought 'git bisect' already worked with only bad commit(s) without
> > any good commit for a long time?
>
> I believe this makes it start from the very first commit.  This
> probably much further back than most people would actually want to
> start from.
> (Also there seems to be a bug here, in that  'git bisect run' requires
> you to have both a good and a bad commit.  Also the man page doesn't
> document this)
Yeah you are right. Do you want to try to fix this bug ?

Thanks in advance, Christian.

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  1. John TapsellMar 5, 2009
  2. Nanako ShiraishiMar 5, 2009
  3. John TapsellMar 5, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2009
  5. bisect run, was Re: More git bisect modesJohannes Schindelin, Mar 5, 2009
  6. John TapsellMar 5, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 5, 2009
  8. Christian CouderMar 5, 2009
  9. Christian CouderMar 5, 2009

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