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Re: Add '--bisect' revision machinery argument

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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date
Oct 31, 2009, 20:58 UTC
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<200910312158.09049.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
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On Thursday 29 October 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > This shows a very nice direction to evolve, but your patch as-is breaks
> > "rev-list --bisect", I think.
>
> I think you're right. I tested git rev-parse, and the 'git log'
> machinery, but I didn't think about the fact that we already had a
> meaning
> for '--bisect' in rev-list.
>
> > Also, the helper of "git bisect" can and probably should be taught to
> > just ask this new behaviour from the revision machinery, instead of
> > collecting good and bad refs itself using bisect.c::read_bisect_refs().
>
> Yeah. And git-bisect.sh can be simplified too.
I will have a look at that.

Sorry for not responding earlier but I just came back today from the Linux Kongress 2009 in Dresden (http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/).

Best regards, Christian.

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Message 5 of 5 in “Add '--bisect' revision machinery argument”
  1. Linus TorvaldsOct 27, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2009
  4. Linus TorvaldsOct 28, 2009
  5. Christian CouderOct 31, 2009

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