From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:55:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Article about "git bisect run" on LWN
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20902070455h360d8476re76294735673b4ca@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200902070541.29955.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Christian Couder
<chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:

> It might be useful to have a list of always good commits too, and use it
> like this:
>
> $ git bisect start <bad> <good> $(cat always_good.txt)
> $ git bisect skip $(cat always_skipped.txt)
> $ git bisect run ./my_test_script.sh

Your test script could just do this at its start instead:

  if cat always_good.txt | grep $(rev-parse HEAD); then
    exit 0
  elif cat always_skipped.txt | grep $(rev-parse HEAD); then
    exit 125
  fi


Dave.