Re: [NON-TOY PATCH] git bisect: introduce 'fixed' and 'unfixed'
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Jun 24, 2008, 20:38 UTC
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- <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806242137120.9925@racer>
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- <486153DB.3070502@alum.mit.edu>
Hi,
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Michael Haggerty wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > When you look for a fix instead of a regression, it can be quite hard > > to twist your brain into choosing the correct bisect command between > > 'git bisect bad' and 'git bisect good'. > > > > So introduce the commands 'git bisect fixed' and 'git bisect unfixed'. > > It seems to me that your problem is that git-bisect requires the "good" > revision to be older than the "bad" one. If this requirement were > removed, would there still be a need for "fixed" vs. "unfixed"?
Nope.
The thing that makes "fixed" and "bad" special is that _one_ commit introduced that.
Ciao, Dscho