Re: git bisect problems/ideas

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 18, 2011, 09:05 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimQm02VQw19dV8BvZEm=643hbSh2qkvOCEwUOPr@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110117205542.GA21507@burratino>

2011/1/17 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:

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> SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 05:51:33AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>>> Christian Couder wrote:
>
>>>> Yeah, many people find it difficult to reverse the meaning of "bad"
>>>> and "good" when looking for a fix. There were some suggestions at some
>>>> points to do something about it. Some of the suggestions were to use
>>>> some aliases for "good" and "bad", but there was no agreement. Other
>>>> suggestions had a patch attached but the patch was not good enough or
>>>> something.
>>>
>>> Any pointers to such a discussion or patch?  Maybe whatever small
>>> detail caused it to be forgotten could be fixed...
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063

Thanks for the link.

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> A better link for those who are thinking of picking up the topic might
> be [1].
>
> The problems were:
>
>  - error messages refer to "good" and "bad" with the original,
>   unreversed meaning, which could be confusing (but see later in the
>   thread!).
>  - "git bisect visualize" doesn't get the memo about the new worldview.
>  - it seems that some people lost interest after a while.
>
> None of these seems totally fatal --- as a new feature, it would not
> be breaking anyone's workflow, especially if the potentially confusing
> bits are clearly documented.

Yeah, some things have changed since that time, so it may be more involved now, but otherwise I think it would be good to have.

Thanks, Christian.