Re: [NON-TOY PATCH] git bisect: introduce 'fixed' and 'unfixed'

From: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 24, 2008, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID: <486179C8.2000704@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <486153DB.3070502@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty wrote:

> Therefore it should be easy to teach git-bisect to locate either kind of
> transition, "bad" -> "good" or "good" -> "bad", depending only on where
> the user places the original "good" and "bad" tags.

I think this is a good suggestion (though I haven't thought things through). Another idea is to add "old" and "new" (or something like that) as aliases to "good" and "bad", since that's the only semantics that the bisect labels actually seem to have.

-- Lea