From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:16:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Article about "git bisect run" on LWN
Message-ID: <7vskmqw1s4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20902070455h360d8476re76294735673b4ca@mail.gmail.com>

David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.