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Re: Could this be done simpler?

From
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date
Jun 25, 2009, 22:55 UTC
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On Friday 26 June 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> >> If someone creates a "git decompose-octopus <commit>" command then ...
>
> I am afraid that misses the entire point of my discussion.
>
> Such a decomposed octopus would _only_ be necessary during bisection,
> only when the user chooses to test two tips at once (instead of testing
> one by one), _and_ only its tree is needed for that purpose.  In other
> words, we should be able to do this _without_ creating an extra commit,
> let alone replace mechanism.

But suppose the result from the bisection tells that M1 is the first bad commit, then the user will need to look at M1, and perhaps check it out or use it in other ways after the bisection is finished. So why shouldn't it be a real commit?

It's not like a few more commits are a big problem as they will be reclaimed by garbage collection anyway if the replace ref is deleted.

Best regards, Christian.

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Message 15 of 15 in “Could this be done simpler?”
  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  3. Randal L. SchwartzJun 25, 2009
  4. Matthias AndreeJun 25, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  6. Matthias AndreeJun 25, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  9. Michael J GruberJun 25, 2009
  10. Christian CouderJun 25, 2009
  11. Christian CouderJun 25, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  13. Linus TorvaldsJun 25, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2009
  15. Christian CouderJun 25, 2009

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