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Re: Generalised bisection

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John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2009, 13:24 UTC
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2009/3/11 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
>
>> 2009/3/11 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
>>
>> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
>> >
>> >> There used to be a dependency on python.  git-merge-recursive for
>> >> example, before it was converted to C.
>> >
>> > Not "for example".  It was the only dependency of git.git on Python,
>> > and the rewrite of merge-recursive was only done to break that
>> > dependency, as I had a platform where I could not install Python.
>>
>> But installing perl was no problem?  (Just curious)
>
> Perl was installed, albeit in an ancient version, and compiling Perl
> modules written in C was out.  It just did not work.

I wonder if it would then be acceptable to have a python script for this generalised bisect? Since it's not core functionality. Not quite sure how it would fit in though (I'd rather it was called from "git bisect" rather than adding another separate git command)

John
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Message 8 of 25 in “Generalised bisection”
  1. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 9, 2009
  2. Christian CouderMar 10, 2009
  3. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 11, 2009
  4. John TapsellMar 11, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinMar 11, 2009
  6. John TapsellMar 11, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 11, 2009
  8. John TapsellMar 11, 2009
  9. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 11, 2009
  10. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 11, 2009
  11. John TapsellMar 12, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinMar 12, 2009
  13. Steven TweedMar 12, 2009
  14. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 13, 2009
  15. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 13, 2009
  16. Steven TweedMar 13, 2009
  17. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 15, 2009
  18. Steven TweedMar 16, 2009
  19. John TapsellMar 16, 2009
  20. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 16, 2009
  21. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 16, 2009
  22. Ealdwulf WuffingaMar 13, 2009
  23. Johannes SchindelinMar 13, 2009
  24. John TapsellMar 13, 2009
  25. Johannes SchindelinMar 13, 2009

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