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Re: [PATCH v2] user-manual: add advanced topic "bisecting merges"

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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date
Nov 8, 2007, 18:38 UTC
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On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
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> You're missing the point.  Johannes suggested that you rebase *only*  
> for bisecting purpose.  Once you find the culprit commit, throw away  
> your rebased stuff.  I've never thought about doing this myself, but  
> it's a very clever way of tackling this problem.  It's slightly less  
> convenient if you need to bisect a large portion of the history  
> (that involves many branches and merges) because in this case we'd  
> like to have a magic git-linearize-history <start-treeish> <end- 
> treeish>.  Unless this is already easily doable with git-rebase?

I don't think you have to linearize it before bisecting. If you bisect and discover that it was due to a merge, then you can rebase *that merge* to discover what part of the merge caused the issue.

~~ Brian
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Message 29 of 30 in “user-manual: add advanced topic "bisecting merges"”
  1. user-manual: add advanced topic "bisecting merges"Steffen Prohaska, Nov 4, 2007
  2. Ralf WildenhuesNov 4, 2007
  3. user-manual: add advanced topic "bisecting merges"Steffen Prohaska, Nov 7, 2007
  4. Benoit SigoureNov 7, 2007
  5. J. Bruce FieldsNov 7, 2007
  6. Steffen ProhaskaNov 8, 2007
  7. Johannes SixtNov 8, 2007
  8. Steffen ProhaskaNov 8, 2007
  9. Johannes SixtNov 8, 2007
  10. Andreas EricssonNov 8, 2007
  11. Johannes SixtNov 8, 2007
  12. Steffen ProhaskaNov 8, 2007
  13. Johannes SixtNov 8, 2007
  14. Steffen ProhaskaNov 8, 2007
  15. user-manual: add advanced topic "bisecting merges"Steffen Prohaska, Nov 10, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2007
  17. Steffen ProhaskaNov 10, 2007
  18. user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."Steffen Prohaska, Nov 10, 2007
  19. Linus TorvaldsNov 10, 2007
  20. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2007
  21. Steffen ProhaskaNov 10, 2007
  22. J. Bruce FieldsNov 18, 2007
  23. Steffen ProhaskaNov 18, 2007
  24. J. Bruce FieldsNov 18, 2007
  25. Andreas EricssonNov 8, 2007
  26. Benoit SigoureNov 8, 2007
  27. Steffen ProhaskaNov 8, 2007
  28. Johannes SchindelinNov 8, 2007
  29. Brian GernhardtNov 8, 2007
  30. Benoit SIGOURENov 4, 2007

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