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Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse"

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Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date
May 29, 2009, 04:20 UTC
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Ealdwulf Wuffinga wrote:
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>> Sounds like interesting stuff, can you make a patch out of it?
>>     
>
> The code as it stands will actually work with an unmodified git.
> What it doesn't yet have is a 'git-bisect'-like frontend, which is the only
> part which would actually require modifying (or just adding to) git itself.
>
> It does already interface to the git plumbing, so you can try it out if you
> don't mind using a slightly ungitlike  interface.
>
> I assume it's not worth doing a patch which would just copy my tree
> into the git source tree?
>
> There was also, last time I mentioned this on the list, some question
> as to whether it was acceptable to add something written in python to
> git.
>   

I mean, can you port your algorithm from python to the git-bisect C source and therefore make something of benefit to existing 'git bisect' users ?

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
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  11. Ealdwulf WuffingaMay 31, 2009
  12. H. Peter AnvinMay 28, 2009
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  14. H. Peter AnvinMay 28, 2009
  15. Ealdwulf WuffingaMay 31, 2009
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