From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:40:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] nd/branch-show-rebase-bisect-state updates
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C93OOLWW2tdh17XA1k3Zs_kUjyZ32v4Ywk2BK83BL3wQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhak7i6ch.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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