Re: RFC: git bisect should accept "paths-to-be-excluded"

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 17, 2013, 08:21 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqvc1z6eoo.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD0qC3UM3Dgt2dhpcBHt34yZ3HwNO6y7Z=EBtyRYpyc+Bw@mail.gmail.com>

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

> In practice though, as git bisect is a kind of binary search, if what
> you want to exclude is exclusively touched by half the commits, it
> will only add one more bisection step if you don't exclude it.

Actually, I think the same remark would apply to any other Git command that deal with a set of revisions. If you want to review code with "git log -p", but you don't care about a subdirectory, you may want a "git log -p --ignore-dir foo/" or so, too.

And then, the "it's logarithmic" argument doesn't work anymore ;-).

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Matthieu Moy
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