From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 04:25:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v10.1 7/7] bisect: allow any terms set by user Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Christian Couder wrote: > > If we don't want to support positional arguments, then I would suggest > supporting first the following instead: > > git bisect terms --name-good=fast --name-bad=slow > git bisect terms --name-bad=slow --name-good=fast > > This would make the interface consistent with the code. Which somewhat defeats the point of introducing "old" and "new", though. The "terms" support is for people who feel that good/bad would be too confusing for the particular bisect session (e.g. because they are hunting for a fix). >> We may want to start supporting >> >> git bisect start --new=master --old=maint > > Maybe we could also support: > > git bisect start --name-good=fast --name-bad=slow --fast=maint --slow=master The same comment for the token after --name-, but allowing the terms to be set at "start" could be a type-saver. With need for added "--name-" prefix (worse, twice), I am not sure if it would be seen as a useful type-saver, though. Thanks.