Re: [RFC/PATCH] bisect: teach "skip" to accept special arguments like "A..B"

> The current "git bisect skip" syntax is "git bisect skip [<rev>...]"
> so it's already possible to skip a range of revisions using
> something like:
> 
> $ git bisect skip $(git rev-list A..B)
> 
> where A and B are the bounds of the range we want to skip.
> 
> This patch teaches "git bisect skip" to accept:
> 
> $ git bisect skip A..B
> 
> as an abbreviation for the former command.
> 
> This is done by checking each argument to see if it contains two
> dots one after the other ('..'), and by expending it using
> "git rev-list" if that is the case.

> Note that this patch will not make "git bisect skip" accept all
> that "git rev-list" accepts, as things like "^A B" for exemple
> will not work. But things like "A B..C D E F.. ..G H...I" should
> work as expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
> ---
>  git-bisect.sh |   19 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> 	Dscho wrote:
> 	> Would it not be more intuitive to have support for
> 	>
>         > git bisect skip A..B
> 	>
> 	> ?
> 
> 	Here is a patch to do that. I am not sure it's worth it
> 	because this is a special case in many ways.