From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:10:19 GMT Subject: Re: bisect and gitk happy together Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46a038f90606120441p74dd4872y441fe04470f4acd5@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > - git-bisect visualise wasn't as useful as just a plain gitk. (This > may be because I was working with ~60 commits in a medium-sized > project). Definitely. Try just firing up gitk when you're bisecting a kernel archive with thousands of commits, and complex history.. That's when "git bisect visualize" really helps: when git bisect has already narrowed down the list of commits from "5 years" to "1 week", but you still have maybe a hundred-odd commits to go. I agree that just plain "gitk" is actually nicer if you want to see the whole context. It's just that often the context is pretty damn confusing ;) > - gitk didn't show the bad commit tagged specially, even if > git-bisect had just identified it. Of course I could find it, but I > had all the other good/bad commits well labelled. And not the one I > was looking for. Odd. It should be the head of the "bisect" branch, and naturally tagged that way. Linus