From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:18:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure
Message-ID: <7v63wgap10.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87pruqfc59.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:

> This error message is very confusing---it doesn't tell the user
> anything about how to fix the situation. And the actual fix
> for the situation ("git bisect reset") does a checkout of a
> potentially random branch, (compared to what the user wants to
> be on for the bisect she is starting).

The message itself refers to a Cogito "feature" and I suspect
that removing the check and refusal would confuse Cogito.  While
I think the patch itself is Ok for us, we may want to wait a bit
for a while. until Cogito users all die out.