Re: [RFC] bisect: Introduce skip-when to automatically skip commits

> Having said that, a post-checkout script and pre-resume script may
> have a huge value in helping those whose tests cannot be automated
> (in other words, they cannot do "git bisect run") when they need to
> tweak the working tree during bisection.  We all have seen, during a
> bisection session that spans a segment of history that has another
> bug that affects our test *but* is orthogonal to the bug we are
> chasing, that we "cherry-pick --no-commit" the fix for that other
> problem inside "git bisect run" script.  It might look something
> like
> 
>      #!/bin/sh
>      if git merge-base --is-ancestor $the_other_bug HEAD
>      then
> 	# we need the fix
> 	git cherry-pick --no-commit $fix_for_the_other_bug ||
> 	exit 125
>      fi
> 
>      make test
>      status=$?
>      git reset --hard ;# undo the cherry-pick
>      exit $status