From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:47:57 GMT Subject: Re: Bisection visualization hint.. Message-ID: <7vhdd7joz6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > 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. > 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).