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

> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Christian Couder wrote:
> >> 	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.
> > 
> > Why not have something like
> > 
> > 	skip)
> > 		for arg in $(git rev-list "$@")
> > 		do
> > 			bisect_state skip $arg
> > 		done
> 
> Because if you say
> 
> 	$ git bisect skip
> 
> this would be incorrectly calling rev-list; but more importantly, if you say
> 
> 	$ git bisect skip A
> 
> then this would skip A *and all its ancestors*. Not quite what you intended.