Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse"

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: May 27, 2009, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqprdue1ie.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20090527172233.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> writes:

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> Quoting "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>:
>
>> I would like to request the following feature:
>>
>> "git bisect reverse"
>>
>> ... does exactly the same thing as "git bisect start", except that it
>> flips the meaning of "good" and "bad".  It is mentally fairly taxing to
>> do a reverse bisection (looking for an antiregression) when one has to
>> flip the meaning of "good" and "bad" (which are very loaded words to our
>> psyche), and it's even worse to try to get a user to do it...
>
> There was a discussion on "fixed" and "unfixed" aliases to find a commit that fixed an old breakage.
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063/focus=86563

I think the bzr "bisect" plugin uses "yes" and "no" instead for this reason. I find it mentally easier to adapt it to both cases ("yes, it's fixed" or "yes, it's broken" depending on what you search).

-- 
Matthieu