From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:29:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Could this be done simpler?
Message-ID: <7vprcsymjd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200906260023.03169.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

>> If someone creates a "git decompose-octopus <commit>" command then ...

I am afraid that misses the entire point of my discussion.

Such a decomposed octopus would _only_ be necessary during bisection, only
when the user chooses to test two tips at once (instead of testing one by
one), _and_ only its tree is needed for that purpose.  In other words, we
should be able to do this _without_ creating an extra commit, let alone
replace mechanism.