Re: [PATCH 4/5] bisect--helper: add "--next-exit" to output bisect results

> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> > The goal of this patch is to port more shell code from the
> > "bisect_next" function in "git-bisect.sh" to C code in
> > "builtin-bisect--helper.c".
> >
> > So we port the code that interprets the bisection result and stops or
> > continues (by checking out the next revision) the bisection process.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
>
> Just to make sure I understand correctly, with this and patch 5/5, we can
> then drop the --next-vars helper command, right?

> > @@ -16,6 +17,12 @@ static const char **rev_argv;
> >  static int rev_argv_nr;
> >  static int rev_argv_alloc;
> >
> > +static const unsigned char *current_bad_sha1;
> > +
> > +static const char *argv_diff_tree[] = {"diff-tree", "--pretty", NULL,
> > NULL}; +static const char *argv_checkout[] = {"checkout", "-q", NULL,
> > "--", NULL}; +static const char *argv_show_branch[] = {"show-branch",
> > NULL, NULL};
>
> I do appreciate that you kept this step in "rewrite in C" theme a
> straight rewrite to still call out the executables.  We can turn these
> into internal calls in future steps, but that is a separate issue.
>
> I suspect that the show-branch call outlived its usefulness with this
> patch; it will now be a low hanging fruit to call format_commit_message()
> internally to reduce one fork+exec.