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Re: [PATCH 1/2] rev-list: implement --bisect-all

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 8, 2007, 05:08 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0710080607180.4174@racer.site>
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<200710080708.46579.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Hi,
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Christian Couder wrote:
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> > IMHO such a logic does not belong into a shell script, but into the C 
> > core.
> 
> There is a lot of the bisect logic implemented in git-bisect.sh already. 
> The long term plan is to rewrite it in C,
Oh?  Did I miss something?
> but I am not sure that the "dunno" logic should be the first part of it 
> to be done in C.

The thing is, git-bisect is porcelain-ish. And by having a lot of the functionality there, which is not really porcelain, but plumbing, you prevent other porcelains, such as git-gui or qgit, from using that function.

Which is bad.

Ciao, Dscho

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  4. Johannes SchindelinOct 8, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2007

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