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Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse"

From
Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date
May 27, 2009, 03:00 UTC
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> I would like to request the following feature:
>
> "git bisect reverse"
>
> ... does exactly the same thing as "git bisect start", except that it
> flips the meaning of "good" and "bad".  It is mentally fairly taxing to
> do a reverse bisection (looking for an antiregression) when one has to
> flip the meaning of "good" and "bad" (which are very loaded words to our
> psyche), and it's even worse to try to get a user to do it...
>

Oh, yes. And another thing: 'git bisect run' / 'git bisect skip' doesn't do a very good job of skipping around broken commits (ie when the script returns 126). It just seems to move to the next one; it would be much better IMHO to first try the commit 1/3rd of the way into the range, then if that fails, the commit 2/3rd of the way through it, etc.

Sam.
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  1. H. Peter AnvinMay 26, 2009
  2. Sam VilainMay 27, 2009
  3. H. Peter AnvinMay 27, 2009
  4. Christian CouderMay 27, 2009
  5. Ealdwulf WuffingaMay 27, 2009
  6. Clemens BuchacherMay 27, 2009
  7. Ealdwulf WuffingaMay 27, 2009
  8. Sam VilainMay 27, 2009
  9. Ealdwulf WuffingaMay 28, 2009
  10. Sam VilainMay 29, 2009
  11. Ealdwulf WuffingaMay 31, 2009
  12. H. Peter AnvinMay 28, 2009
  13. Ealdwulf WuffingaMay 28, 2009
  14. H. Peter AnvinMay 28, 2009
  15. Ealdwulf WuffingaMay 31, 2009
  16. Christian CouderMay 27, 2009
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