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Re: [PATCH v3] bisect: teach "skip" to accept a range using "-r|--range" option

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 30, 2008, 08:24 UTC
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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
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> 	Junio wrote:
> 	>
> 	> Although I fully realize that the established semantics of A..B in git is
> 	> bottom-exclusive, top-inclusive, and this suggestion breaks the UI
> 	> uniformity by deviating from that convention, I have to wonder if it would
> 	> be more useful if you let the bottom commit (A in your example) also be
> 	> skipped.
>
> 	I agree that it would be perhaps more usefull to skip the bottom commit.

Actually I do not think it is such a big deal to warrant more code and complexity. "skip A..B A", if you really wanted to, would work anyway.

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