From: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:01:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] rev-list: refuse --first-parent combined with --bisect
Message-ID: <20150321220144.GG11832@vps892.directvps.nl>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh9tghaky.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 03:43:57PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info> writes:
> 
> > rev-list --bisect is used by git bisect, but never together with
> > --first-parent. Because rev-list --bisect together with --first-parent
> > is not handled currently, and even leads to segfaults, refuse to use
> > both options together.
> >
> > Because this is not supported, it makes little sense to use git log
> > --bisect --first parent either, because refs/heads/bad is not limited to
> > the first parent chain.
> >
> > Helped-by: Junio C. Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> > Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
> > ---
> 
> Thanks; will queue.

Thank you too, for your thorough explanation in this.