From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:19:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.
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On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It might become more important if someone ever writes a tool that does
>> a bisection on the user's behalf. In this case, aborting the tool
>> might leave the HEAD in, what appears to the user, a confused state.
>
> Yes, I would prefer a series without --use-this-ref-for-bisect-status and
> then a follow-up series on top of it to add that as a separate feature.
>
> Thanks.
>

Ok, I understand that you are not convinced that such a series is
necessary and so may not integrate it at this point.

However, I will prepare one, just for the record.

In this hypothetical additional series, are you happy for
--no-checkout to become a synonym for --update-ref=HEAD in the manner
of v8? From a technical perspective, it doesn't seem necessary to
duplicate the state variables and parameters.

jon.