From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:42:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.
Message-ID: <201108010642.03651.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v39hmkkth.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Monday 01 August 2011 03:00:10 Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> When used without "--no-checkout" option, "bisect" need to check-out the
> candidate version. What good would it do if it does _not_ update HEAD when
> it does so?
> 
> While you are correct to point out --[no-]checkout is a boolean option,
> this "we do not update HEAD but update this other thing" is not orthogonal
> to the option. It does not make sense when we actually touch the working
> tree.

Yeah.

> My preference is not to play games with "we can specify a ref other than
> HEAD" until somebody can demonstrate why it is a feature "because we need
> to be able to do so in such and such times", not merely "because we can".

So you want Jon to post a patch series with only a "--no-checkout" option. Ok.

Thanks,
Christian.