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Re: Add '--bisect' revision machinery argument

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Oct 28, 2009, 23:32 UTC
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> This shows a very nice direction to evolve, but your patch as-is breaks
> "rev-list --bisect", I think.

I think you're right. I tested git rev-parse, and the 'git log' machinery, but I didn't think about the fact that we already had a meaning for '--bisect' in rev-list.

> Also, the helper of "git bisect" can and probably should be taught to just
> ask this new behaviour from the revision machinery, instead of collecting
> good and bad refs itself using bisect.c::read_bisect_refs().
Yeah. And git-bisect.sh can be simplified too.
		Linus
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  3. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2009
  4. Linus TorvaldsOct 28, 2009
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