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Re: Article about "git bisect run" on LWN

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David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2009, 21:03 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> I think Junio meant using '< $file' type redirection, to avoid an
> unnecessary fork().  (Good habit, avoiding fork()s...)

Yes, I usually pass filenames to grep; this time I was copy-and-pasting parts of the original script. But my point still remains: it seems it would be cleaner to do this kind of always-good-filtering in the test script rather than make git-bisect more complex.

Dave.
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  10. Christian CouderFeb 7, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2009
  12. Ingo MolnarFeb 9, 2009
  13. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
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  15. Christian CouderFeb 10, 2009
  16. Jonathan CorbetFeb 5, 2009
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