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Re: Feature request: 'git bisect run' option to redundantly check start and end commits

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 19, 2020, 11:39 UTC
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Christian Couder wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 6:15 PM Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Christian Couder wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:39 PM Felipe Contreras
> > > <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Here's a quick patch to implement such feature (it doesn't apply
> > > > directly, it's mostly for human eyes).
> > >
> > > There has been a lot of work over the years to port code from shell in
> > > git-bisect.sh to C in builtin/bisect--helper.c. So it would be nice,
> > > if you plan to implement this feature, if you could do it directly in
> > > builtin/bisect--helper.c.
> >
> > Yeah, I'm aware and I might be willing to do that--which probably would
> > require moving the whole of "bisect run" to C--if there was an
> > indication that such a patch would actually be merged.
> 
> I think it would likely be merged, as it would just be finishing the
> porting git bisect to C saga.
My experience tells me otherwise. We'll see.
-- 
Felipe Contreras
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  1. Ed AvisDec 18, 2020
  2. Felipe ContrerasDec 18, 2020
  3. Christian CouderDec 18, 2020
  4. Felipe ContrerasDec 18, 2020
  5. Christian CouderDec 19, 2020
  6. Felipe ContrerasDec 19, 2020
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2020

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