From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 05:35:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect
Message-ID: <7v3ao9twfa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080523012857.acce6457.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

> When "git bisect" was first written, it was not possible to
> checkout a detached HEAD. The detached feature appeared latter.
> ...
> This patch makes "git bisect" checkout revisions to be tested on
> a detached HEAD. This simplifies the code a bit.

Yay!!

One potential worry/downside is "bisect visualize".  Because <bisect>
branch was used for bisection, the _current_ commit has always been
indicated with a label.  HEAD would not get any special label in gitk,
would it?