From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:22:33 GMT
Subject: Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse"
Message-ID: <20090527172233.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A1C6B70.4050501@zytor.com>

Quoting "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>:

> I would like to request the following feature:
>
> "git bisect reverse"
>
> ... does exactly the same thing as "git bisect start", except that it
> flips the meaning of "good" and "bad".  It is mentally fairly taxing to
> do a reverse bisection (looking for an antiregression) when one has to
> flip the meaning of "good" and "bad" (which are very loaded words to our
> psyche), and it's even worse to try to get a user to do it...

There was a discussion on "fixed" and "unfixed" aliases to find a commit that fixed an old breakage.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063/focus=86563

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Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/