From: Jon Seymour Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:18:45 GMT Subject: Re: git-rev-list: "--bisect" flag Message-ID: <2cfc403205061817181e4d6d5e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 6/18/05, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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.