From: Christian Couder Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:05:33 GMT Subject: Re: git bisect problems/ideas Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110117205542.GA21507@burratino> 2011/1/17 Jonathan Nieder : > 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. > 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.