From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:53:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20710150453g1220d968k9a23f2b8329a67db@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7EDF99A4-00BD-4F89-A31F-DCA33723CDD5@wincent.com>

On 15/10/2007, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
> El 15/10/2007, a las 9:02, Johan Herland escribió:
>
> > On Monday 15 October 2007, David Symonds wrote:
> >> On 15/10/2007, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> wrote:
> >>> David Kastrup said the following on 14.10.2007 19:48:
> >>>>
> >>>> "unknown" clearly is much better than "dunno" though even if my own
> >>>> favorite would be "undecided".
> >>>
> >>> What then about a good'ol programming favorite, "void"? :-)
> >>
> >> "skip"? That would make semantic sense, right?
> >
> > ...or we could go all spaghetti western, and call it "ugly".
> >
> > (as in "git-bisect [the <good>, the <bad> and the <ugly>]")
>
> <personal opinion>
>    Yes, it's funny, but I don't think an SCM interface is a place for
> jokes or puns. Git already has one big tongue-in-cheek attribute:
> it's name, so let's leave it at that.
> </personal opinion>

That's also why I suggested "skip"; you might not be able to test a
particular commit, but you might also not *want* to test a particular
commit for some reason.


Dave.