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Re: [PATCH v13 4/8] bisect: introduce support for --no-checkout option.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 2, 2011, 18:00 UTC
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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:
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> If --no-checkout is specified, then the bisection process uses:
>
> 	git update-ref --no-deref HEAD <trial>
>
> at each trial instead of:
>
> 	git checkout <trial>
> ...
Ok.
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>  int cmd_bisect__helper(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  {
>  	int next_all = 0;
> +	int no_checkout = 0;
> +	char *bisect_mode=NULL;
>  	struct option options[] = {
>  		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "next-all", &next_all,
>  			    "perform 'git bisect next'"),
> +		OPT_STRING(0, "bisect-mode", &bisect_mode, "mode",
> +			    "the bisection mode either checkout or update-ref. defaults to checkout."),

I think this is a regression from naming perspective from the previous round. You would be either the normal (checkout) mode or no-checkout mode, and honestly, --no-checkout would be understood by anybody while update-ref would be understood only by Gitz.

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Message 8 of 23 in “bisect: Add support for --no-checkout option”
  1. 0/8 bisect: Add support for --no-checkout optionJon Seymour, Aug 2, 2011
  2. 1/8 bisect: move argument parsing before state modification.Jon Seymour, Aug 2, 2011
  3. 2/8 bisect: use && to connect statements that are deferred with eval.Jon Seymour, Aug 2, 2011
  4. 3/8 bisect: add tests to document expected behaviour in presence of broken trees.Jon Seymour, Aug 2, 2011
  5. 4/8 bisect: introduce support for --no-checkout option.Jon Seymour, Aug 2, 2011
  6. Christian CouderAug 2, 2011
  7. Jon SeymourAug 2, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2011
  9. Jon SeymourAug 2, 2011
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2011
  11. Jon SeymourAug 2, 2011
  12. 5/8 bisect: introduce --no-checkout support into porcelain.Jon Seymour, Aug 2, 2011
  13. Christian CouderAug 2, 2011
  14. Jon SeymourAug 2, 2011
  15. Christian CouderAug 3, 2011
  16. Jon SeymourAug 3, 2011
  17. Jon SeymourAug 3, 2011
  18. Christian CouderAug 3, 2011
  19. Jon SeymourAug 3, 2011
  20. Christian CouderAug 3, 2011
  21. 6/8 bisect: add tests for the --no-checkout option.Jon Seymour, Aug 2, 2011
  22. 7/8 bisect: add documentation for --no-checkout option.Jon Seymour, Aug 2, 2011
  23. 8/8 bisect: change bisect function to update BISECT_HEAD, rather than HEAD.Jon Seymour, Aug 2, 2011

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