From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:50:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bisect: Store first bad commit as comment in log file
Message-ID: <7v4nf82soy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130413152257.GB16040@pvv.ntnu.no>

Torstein Hegge <hegge@resisty.net> writes:

> When bisect successfully finds a single revision, the first bad commit
> should be shown to human readers of 'git bisect log'.
>
> This resolves the apparent disconnect between the bisection result and
> the log when a bug reporter says "I know that the first bad commit is
> $rev, as you can see from $(git bisect log)".
>
> Signed-off-by: Torstein Hegge <hegge@resisty.net>
> ---
> I don't know how useful the added test is, I didn't find any existing
> tests that looks at the comment parts of bisect log.
>
>  git-bisect.sh               |    8 +++++++-
>  t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh
> index 99efbe8..c58eea7 100755
> --- a/git-bisect.sh
> +++ b/git-bisect.sh
> @@ -311,7 +311,13 @@ bisect_next() {
>  	res=$?
>  
>  	# Check if we should exit because bisection is finished
> -	test $res -eq 10 && exit 0
> +	if test $res -eq 10
> +	then
> +		bad_rev=$(git show-ref --hash --verify refs/bisect/bad)
> +		bad_commit=$(git show-branch $bad_rev)
> +		echo "# first bad commit: $bad_commit" >>"$GIT_DIR/BISECT_LOG"

As this is "# commented out", replaying will safely ignore this new
record, so this should be safe.