Re: Feature request: 'git bisect run' option to redundantly check start and end commits

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2020, 07:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3AHZppV2puere=zKyRjHhywCYQcO6q4yU7jJCfF0HZJg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5fdce3a04a8b6_12eac7208b@natae.notmuch>

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 6:15 PM Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Christian Couder wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:39 PM Felipe Contreras
> > <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Here's a quick patch to implement such feature (it doesn't apply
> > > directly, it's mostly for human eyes).
> >
> > There has been a lot of work over the years to port code from shell in
> > git-bisect.sh to C in builtin/bisect--helper.c. So it would be nice,
> > if you plan to implement this feature, if you could do it directly in
> > builtin/bisect--helper.c.
>
> Yeah, I'm aware and I might be willing to do that--which probably would
> require moving the whole of "bisect run" to C--if there was an
> indication that such a patch would actually be merged.

I think it would likely be merged, as it would just be finishing the porting git bisect to C saga.

There has been work on this by a number of GSoC students and Outreachy interns. I am adding Miriam in Cc who is the last one to have been working on this. I think her most current work is:

https://gitlab.com/mirucam/git/-/commits/git-bisect-work4.3.1/

which contains a commit to port bisect_run to C.

I am not sure if she was planning on continuing the port by sending this to the mailing list. Hopefully she will reply to this thread.

Best, Christian.