Re: feature request - telling git bisect to skip, from inside a commit

> sometimes its feels clearer to devote a commit to changing (for example)
> the definition of a struct;  and changing all users of that struct in
> the next commit.
> This isolates and highlights the definitional change, rather than burying
> it in the middle of a huge diff.
> 
> The downside of doing this is that git bisect will trip over this 1/2
> change. It would be nice if a committer could mark the commit as not
> bisectable, perhaps by just adding this, on a separate line, to the
> commit-message:
> 
>     "git bisect skip [optional range]"
> 
> the range presumably would be something like CURRENT^1
> except that it would make more sense to flag successors than ancestors,
> and of course, CURRENT would have to mean something.
> 
> Anyway, range isnt really needed, as any subsequent interim commits
> could also flag themselves as such.
> 
> git bisect already has ability to skip a commit, this just helps an
> automated bisection script.