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Re: [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Aug 2, 2011, 17:53 UTC
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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Then, the next series can add a --bisect-head option (instead of
>> --update-ref) to allow the head to be varied (defaulting to
>> BISECT_HEAD) if not specified.
>
> To clarify: --bisect-head would default to HEAD if mode is checkout,
> to BISECT_HEAD if the mode is update-ref.

I am not sure if we ever want to allow updating anything but HEAD under checkout mode, so I would rather think --bisect-head is _always_ invalid under that mode. IOW, as I said in the previous message, these two are not independent options.

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Message 25 of 26 in “bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.”
  1. 0/5 bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.Jon Seymour, Jul 30, 2011
  2. 1/5 bisect: add tests to document expected behaviour in presence of broken trees.Jon Seymour, Jul 30, 2011
  3. 2/5 bisect: introduce support for --no-checkout=<ref> option.Jon Seymour, Jul 30, 2011
  4. Christian CouderJul 30, 2011
  5. 3/5 bisect: introduce --no-checkout[=<ref>] support into porcelain.Jon Seymour, Jul 30, 2011
  6. Christian CouderJul 30, 2011
  7. Jon SeymourJul 30, 2011
  8. Christian CouderJul 31, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2011
  10. Christian CouderAug 1, 2011
  11. 4/5 bisect: add tests for the --no-checkout option.Jon Seymour, Jul 30, 2011
  12. 5/5 bisect: add documentation for --no-checkout[=<ref>] option.Jon Seymour, Jul 30, 2011
  13. Jon SeymourJul 30, 2011
  14. Christian CouderJul 30, 2011
  15. Jon SeymourJul 30, 2011
  16. Christian CouderJul 30, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2011
  18. Christian CouderAug 1, 2011
  19. Jon SeymourAug 1, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2011
  21. Jon SeymourAug 1, 2011
  22. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2011
  23. Jon SeymourAug 2, 2011
  24. Jon SeymourAug 2, 2011
  25. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2011
  26. Jon SeymourAug 2, 2011

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