Re: [RFC/PATCH]: reverse bisect v 2.0

From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Oct 4, 2011, 22:34 UTC
Message-ID: <201110050034.46334.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfwj8dbn0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Tuesday 04 October 2011 17:22:59 Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 10:00:25AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > And the --started-to would literally be implemented as flipping the
> > meaning of "git bisect yes" and "git bisect no", and nothing more. IOW,
> > it's just another way of spelling "git bisect --reverse".
> 
> Yes, if we wanted to also implement the flipping of the mapping between
> yes/no and good/bad, I do not have any problem with --used-to/--started-to
> pair of options.

If we decide to go with yes/no, an option like:

--yes-means=<it behaves like this>

seems to me easier to understand. Though I recognize that it doesn't tell that the behavior changed.

And before responding to this thread I wanted to have another look at the unfinished patch that Dscho sent a few years ago, but I did not have much time these past few days, and I could not find it anymore.

Thanks, Christian.