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Re: RFC: git bisect should accept "paths-to-be-excluded"

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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 17, 2013, 09:03 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In practice though, as git bisect is a kind of binary search, if what
>> you want to exclude is exclusively touched by half the commits, it
>> will only add one more bisection step if you don't exclude it.
>
> Actually, I think the same remark would apply to any other Git command
> that deal with a set of revisions. If you want to review code with "git
> log -p", but you don't care about a subdirectory, you may want a "git
> log -p --ignore-dir foo/" or so, too.
Yeah, and there was a patch series about that 2 years ago:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182830/
> And then, the "it's logarithmic" argument doesn't work anymore ;-).
Sure.

Best regards, Christian.

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Message 4 of 16 in “RFC: git bisect should accept "paths-to-be-excluded"”
  1. Toralf FörsterSep 16, 2013
  2. Christian CouderSep 17, 2013
  3. Matthieu MoySep 17, 2013
  4. Christian CouderSep 17, 2013
  5. Duy NguyenSep 17, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2013
  7. Piotr KrukowieckiSep 17, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2013
  9. Piotr KrukowieckiSep 17, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2013
  11. Duy NguyenSep 18, 2013
  12. Support pathspec magic :(exclude) and its short form :-Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 20, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2013
  14. Duy NguyenNov 21, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2013
  16. Toralf FörsterSep 17, 2013

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