From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:24:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 5/8] bisect: introduce --no-checkout support into porcelain.
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Christian Couder
> <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 02 August 2011 16:41:13 Jon Seymour wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Christian Couder
>>>
>>> If I was to do this, I'd prefer to change uses of $BISECT_MODE with a
>>> call to a function bisect_mode() that does the same thing.
>>
>> Yeah, I think it would be a good idea to have a bisect_mode() function.
>> I don't like very much to blindly call some code when we might not need it.
>>
>
Mmmm.

Actually, there is a neater way to do this.

I'll such use the existence of BISECT_HEAD to inform the
implementation of bisect_mode().

This avoids the need for a separate .git/BISECT_MODE file.

jon.