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Re: More git bisect modes

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John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 5, 2009, 10:17 UTC
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2009/3/5 Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>:
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> Quoting John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>:
>
>> * An exponential back-off.  Typically I know that HEAD is broken, and
>> I don't know when it used to work.
>
> I thought 'git bisect' already worked with only bad commit(s) without any good commit for a long time?

I believe this makes it start from the very first commit. This probably much further back than most people would actually want to start from. (Also there seems to be a bug here, in that 'git bisect run' requires you to have both a good and a bad commit. Also the man page doesn't document this)

John Tapsell
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  1. John TapsellMar 5, 2009
  2. Nanako ShiraishiMar 5, 2009
  3. John TapsellMar 5, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2009
  5. bisect run, was Re: More git bisect modesJohannes Schindelin, Mar 5, 2009
  6. John TapsellMar 5, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 5, 2009
  8. Christian CouderMar 5, 2009
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