From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:33:51 GMT Subject: Re: Why can't I use git-bisect to find the first *good* commit? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Andrew Garber writes: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > >>      o--o--o--B >>     / >>  --o--o--o--o--G >> >> When I have this history and I mark B as bad and G as good, will I now >> find the first bad or the first good commit? > > That kind of situation shouldn't occur: IMO, bisect should only deal > with a single branch (the current branch). Why? It's not uncommon in real life to face the "it works in branch foo but not in branch bar, where did it break?" problem. And one expects a great tool such as Git to be able to answer it. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/