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Re: Bisect needing to be at repo top-level?

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BABen Aveling <bena.001@optusnet.com.au>
Date
Sep 19, 2013, 13:15 UTC
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On 18/9/13 05:20, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de> writes:
>
>> why do we allow running git-checkout(1)
>> from a subdirectory?
> We may want to check the condition and forbid such a checkout.
It would probably make sense.

It might also make sense to relax the check in git bisect somewhat. Currently, even "git bisect help" insists that "You need to run this command from the toplevel of the working tree."

Regards, Ben
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Message 5 of 11 in “Bisect needing to be at repo top-level?”
  1. Burton, RossSep 17, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2013
  3. Lukas FleischerSep 17, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2013
  5. Ben AvelingSep 19, 2013
  6. Ben AvelingSep 19, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2013
  8. Stefan BellerOct 9, 2013
  9. Jeff KingOct 9, 2013
  10. Stefan BellerOct 9, 2013
  11. Burton, RossSep 17, 2013

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