Re: Bisection visualization hint..

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 30, 2005, 17:47 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhdd7joz6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508301026450.4293@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> I'm testing bisection to find a bug that causes my G5 to no longer boot, 
> and during the process have found this command line very nice:
>
> 	gitk bisect/bad --not $(cd .git/refs ; ls bisect/good-*)
>
> it basically shows the state of bisection with the known bad commit as the 
> top, and cutting off all the good commits - so what you see are the 
> potential buggy commits.

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> But it's not the nicest of command lines and depends on knowing how
> bisection works, so maybe we could make
>
> 	git bisect visualize
>
> do this for us?

Will do.

Another thing that might make sense is roll it also into gitk, a new command from "File" menu to cause it to re-read not just ref values but the rev-list itself out of that particular rev-list command (and add any other common patterns as we discover them).