From: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 07:29:07 GMT
Subject: Re: GSoC Project | Improvise git bisect
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Pranit,
>
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2016, Pranit Bauva wrote:
>
>> I could first move individual functions to bisect--helper.c.
>
> My suggestion would be to give it a try already with some functionality
> you deem small enough to move to the bisect--helper within a day or so. It
> is always good to test the waters like that, and to include this early
> work in the proposal, also to assess (and to let the reviewers assess) how
> feasible the project is.

Sure! I will start with check_term_format().

Also, I think implementing a new algorithm for bisect along with this
would be too big for a GSoC project and I am no algorithm expert. I
will stick to --first-parent along with incremental rewrite.