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Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] bisect: add support for bisecting bare repositories

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 9, 2011, 17:26 UTC
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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:
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> This extension to js/bisect-no-checkout adds support for bisecting bare repositories.
>
> It does this by relaxing the requirement that git bisect is invoked in a repository with a working tree and by defaulting to --no-checkout in the case of a bare repository.
>
> Two tests are included to demonstrate this behaviour.
I'd wrap the long line myself but next time please be careful.
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> diff --git a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
> index 4fb7d11..62125ec 100755
> --- a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
> +++ b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
> @@ -592,6 +592,37 @@ test_expect_success 'erroring out when using bad path parameters' '
>  	grep "bad path parameters" error.txt
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success 'test bisection on bare repo - --no-checkout specified' '
> +	git clone --bare . bare.nocheckout &&
> +	(
> +		cd bare.nocheckout &&
> +		git bisect start --no-checkout &&
> +		git bisect good $HASH1 &&
> +		git bisect bad $HASH4 &&
> +		git bisect run eval \
> +			"test \$(git rev-list BISECT_HEAD ^$HASH2 --max-count=1 | wc -l) = 0" \
> +			>../nocheckout.log &&
> +		git bisect reset
> +	) &&
> +	grep "$HASH3 is the first bad commit" nocheckout.log
> +'

git-bisect does not have any cd_to_toplevel so with a working tree you can run a bisection from a subdirectory, it seems. I wonder what would happen if you did "cd bare.nocheckout/objects" or something silly like that.

Just wondering...
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