Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse"

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: May 27, 2009, 04:20 UTC
Message-ID: <4A1CBF7A.3090708@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A1CACB2.7000702@vilain.net>

Sam Vilain wrote:

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> 
> 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.
>

I posted about that last year:

http://marc.info/?l=git&i=48F3DCEB.1060803@zytor.com

At the time, git bisect was still done in the shell and it was deemed too difficult.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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