From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:27:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Then, the next series can add a --bisect-head option (instead of
>>> --update-ref) to allow the head to be varied (defaulting to
>>> BISECT_HEAD) if not specified.
>>
>> To clarify: --bisect-head would default to HEAD if mode is checkout,
>> to BISECT_HEAD if the mode is update-ref.
>
> I am not sure if we ever want to allow updating anything but HEAD under
> checkout mode, so I would rather think --bisect-head is _always_ invalid
> under that mode. IOW, as I said in the previous message, these two are not
> independent options.
>

I agree. In fact, I like your idea of a BISECT_HEAD for --no-checkout,
and I don't see any need (even in the future)
to allow this to be configurable [ except perhaps if someone thinks
doing a --no-checkout with HEAD is actually useful ].

jon.