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Re: git-rev-list: "--bisect" flag

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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 19, 2005, 00:18 UTC
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On 6/18/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> 
> Ok, I just added a feature to "git-rev-list" that I hereby nominate to be
> the coolest feature ever, namely the "--bisect" flag, which basically
> tries to split the list of revisions in two, and prints out just the "most
> middle" commit.
>

Perhaps in answering this question, you can help me understand the intended behaviour of your bisection algorithm a little better. The question is this: for your purposes, given a rev-list output, why not simply use the literal middle element of the outputed list?

jon.
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