Re: Article about "git bisect run" on LWN
David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Christian Couder
> <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
>
>> It might be useful to have a list of always good commits too, and use it
>> like this:
>>
>> $ git bisect start <bad> <good> $(cat always_good.txt)
>> $ git bisect skip $(cat always_skipped.txt)
>> $ git bisect run ./my_test_script.sh
>
> Your test script could just do this at its start instead:
>
> if cat always_good.txt | grep $(rev-parse HEAD); then
> exit 0
> elif cat always_skipped.txt | grep $(rev-parse HEAD); then
> exit 125
> fi
Don't cat a file into grep, please.