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Re: Clueless bisect error message

From
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 11, 2006, 08:30 UTC
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On 10/11/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> My point actually was that even a simple rewording is harder
> than it seems, because that cluelessness actually was introduced
> to help Cogito.  If we do not care about it, we can just reword
> it to say "Hey you are in the middle of another bisect, or maybe
> you left your bisect by doing git-checkout earlier?  In either
> case git-bisect --reset is your friend, oh, and we can run that
> for you now if you want".  We could even remove head-name in
> git-checkout when we see one.
>
> But I suspect that doing either of these things would harm
> Cogito users.  After cg-seek the user is not "in the middle of
> another bisect", and if we run "git bisect --reset" when we see
> head-name, it would probably break it too.

Thanks. Now I understand the issue. I'm sorry for my ignorant because I haven't used cogito yet.

-- 
Duy
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  1. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 11, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2006
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 11, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2006
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 11, 2006
  6. Jeff KingOct 11, 2006
  7. Krzysztof HalasaOct 11, 2006
  8. Jeff KingOct 11, 2006

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