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Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] nd/branch-show-rebase-bisect-state updates

From
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 20, 2013, 12:40 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> I was running "git bisect start pu jch" (jch is a branch I do not
> push out everywhere that is somewhere in the middle of
> "master..pu"), and then after bisection finished, saw this:
>
>     $ git branch --with 66887099e096f0258a5ef3b1e7458748597bdffe
>     * (no branch, bisecting jch)
>       nd/magic-pathspecs
>       pu
>
> which is obviously bogus.  I only said "I know the tip of pu is bad
> and the tip of jch is good".  If anything, I was bisecting the
> breakage in 'pu', not in 'jch'.
>
> I think the message should better say "before you started to bisect
> you were on 'jch'" or something instead.
How about
* (no branch, bisect started on jch)

then? I don't want to make it too long because it'll waste space in column layout.

-- 
Duy
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Message 35 of 38 in “nd/branch-show-rebase-bisect-state updates”
  1. 0/5 nd/branch-show-rebase-bisect-state updatesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 3, 2013
  2. 1/5 checkout: record full target ref in reflogNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 3, 2013
  3. 2/5 wt-status: split wt_status_state parsing function outNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 3, 2013
  4. 3/5 wt-status: move wt_status_get_state() out to wt_status_print()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 3, 2013
  5. 4/5 status: show the ref that is checked out, even if it's detachedNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 3, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2013
  7. Duy NguyenMar 4, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2013
  9. Duy NguyenMar 5, 2013
  10. Matthieu MoyMar 5, 2013
  11. 5/5 branch: show more information when HEAD is detachedNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 3, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2013
  13. 0/4 nd/branch-show-rebase-bisect-state updatesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 6, 2013
  14. 1/4 wt-status: split wt_status_state parsing function outNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 6, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2013
  17. 2/4 wt-status: move wt_status_get_state() out to wt_status_print()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 6, 2013
  18. 3/4 status: show more info than "currently not on any branch"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 6, 2013
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2013
  20. Duy NguyenMar 8, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2013
  22. 4/4 branch: show more information when HEAD is detachedNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 6, 2013
  23. 0/4 nd/branch-show-rebase-bisect-state updatesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 6, 2013
  24. 4/4 branch: show more information when HEAD is detachedNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 6, 2013
  25. 0/5 nd/branch-show-rebase-bisect-state updatesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 13, 2013
  26. 1/5 wt-status: move strbuf into read_and_strip_branch()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 13, 2013
  27. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2013
  28. 1/5 wt-status: move strbuf into read_and_strip_branch()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 16, 2013
  29. 2/5 wt-status: split wt_status_state parsing function outNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 13, 2013
  30. 3/5 wt-status: move wt_status_get_state() out to wt_status_print()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 13, 2013
  31. 4/5 status: show more info than "currently not on any branch"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 13, 2013
  32. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2013
  33. 5/5 branch: show more information when HEAD is detachedNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 13, 2013
  34. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2013
  35. Duy NguyenMar 20, 2013
  36. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2013
  37. status, branch: fix the misleading "bisecting" messageNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 23, 2013
  38. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2013

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