From: Christian Couder Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:59:06 GMT Subject: Re: More git bisect modes Message-ID: <200903052159.06537.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650903050217m2885692dkcef08ab2a5f60082@mail.gmail.com> Le jeudi 5 mars 2009, John Tapsell a écrit : > 2009/3/5 Nanako Shiraishi : > > Quoting John Tapsell : > >> * 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.