Re: git bisect problems/ideas

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 17, 2011, 20:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20110117205542.GA21507@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20110117133843.GA23625@neumann>

SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 05:51:33AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Christian Couder wrote:

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>>> Yeah, many people find it difficult to reverse the meaning of "bad"
>>> and "good" when looking for a fix. There were some suggestions at some
>>> points to do something about it. Some of the suggestions were to use
>>> some aliases for "good" and "bad", but there was no agreement. Other
>>> suggestions had a patch attached but the patch was not good enough or
>>> something.
>>
>> Any pointers to such a discussion or patch?  Maybe whatever small
>> detail caused it to be forgotten could be fixed...
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063

A better link for those who are thinking of picking up the topic might be [1].

The problems were:

 - error messages refer to "good" and "bad" with the original,
   unreversed meaning, which could be confusing (but see later in the
   thread!).
 - "git bisect visualize" doesn't get the memo about the new worldview.
 - it seems that some people lost interest after a while.

None of these seems totally fatal --- as a new feature, it would not be breaking anyone's workflow, especially if the potentially confusing bits are clearly documented.

Thanks.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86089/focus=86161