Re: Bisect limited to Merge Commits

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Apr 27, 2016, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <57213041.5070506@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8tzy93ed.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Am 27.04.2016 um 22:56 schrieb Junio C Hamano:

> So being able to stop at only commits on the first-parent chain is a
> valid and useful tool.  "git bisect --first-parent" is one of the
> things that are sometimes asked for.

With origin pointing to git.git, I attempted this:

  git bisect start
  git rev-list --first-parent --boundary origin..origin/pu |
    sed -ne s/-//p | xargs git bisect good
  git bisect bad origin/pu

and it starts bisecting among the 50-something first-parent commits between origin and origin/pu.

-- Hannes