From: Andreas Schwab Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:17:37 GMT Subject: Re: git bisect with temporary commits Message-ID: <87lh8whjj2.fsf@igel.home> In-Reply-To: <20151214182255.GB13519@tonks> Florian Bruhin writes: > I see - but wouldn't it make more sense for a "git bisect good" (or > bad, respectively) without arguments to assume I mean the commit > bisect checked out for me, not HEAD? The problem is that there is nothing that marks the originally checked out commit except by being pointed to by HEAD. Also, testing a different commit as the one suggested by git can be useful when skipping over commits that are known to fail for unrelated reasons (see "Avoiding testing a commit" in git-bisect(1)). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."