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Re: git bisect enhancements?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 30, 2005, 22:04 UTC
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Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> writes:
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> ...  I want to "bump" the bisect point
> up two commits and _then_ build.
>
> So, I'm proposing something like:
>
>     $ git bisect bump +<n>
>     $ git bisect bump -<n>
>
> To move the bisection point "up" or "down" a commit chain.

Hmph. Doesn't "bisect good" or "bisect bad" let you explicitly say which one is good or bad, instead of just taking what it suggests as the next midpoint?

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