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Bisection visualization hint..

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 30, 2005, 17:29 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0508301026450.4293@g5.osdl.org>

I'm testing bisection to find a bug that causes my G5 to no longer boot, and during the process have found this command line very nice:

	gitk bisect/bad --not $(cd .git/refs ; ls bisect/good-*)

it basically shows the state of bisection with the known bad commit as the top, and cutting off all the good commits - so what you see are the potential buggy commits.

But it's not the nicest of command lines and depends on knowing how bisection works, so maybe we could make

	git bisect visualize
do this for us?
		Linus
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