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Re: [PATCH v9 5/5] bisect: allow any terms set by user

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 25, 2015, 21:41 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
> +------------------------------------------------
> +git bisect terms <term-new> <term-old>
> +------------------------------------------------

The mnemonic for "git bisect start bad good" is Bad comes before Good (B = 0x42, G = 0x47) and this is same for "new/old", New comes before Old (N = 0x4e, O = 0x4f). "git bisect terms new old" follows the same pattern, which is good. Easy to remember.

> +This command has to be used before a bisection has started. <term-old>
> +must be associated with the latest revisions and <term-new> with the
> +ancestors of <term-old>.
Whoa?  This gets new and old mixed up, doesn't it?
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> For example, if something was buggy in the
> +old part of the history, you know somewhere the bug was fixed, and you
> +want to find the exact commit that fixed it, you may want to say `git
> +bisect terms fixed broken`; this way, you would mark a commit that
> +still has the bug with `broken`, and a newer one after the fix with
> +`fixed`.

So, it used to be broken, it got fixed recently, so broken is old, fixed is new, "bad/new and then good/old" mnemonic says you give "fixed broken" to "bisect terms". OK.

> +Only the first bisection following the `git bisect terms` will use the
> +terms. If you mistyped one of the terms you can do again `git bisect
> +terms <term-old> <term-new>`.
This is also the other way around, no?
> +git bisect terms <term-new> <term-old>
> +	set up <term-new> and <term-old> as terms (default: bad, good)
Good.
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Message 41 of 48 in “bisect: correction of typo”
  1. 1/6 bisect: correction of typoAntoine Delaite, Jun 22, 2015
  2. 2/6 bisect: replace hardcoded "bad|good" by variablesAntoine Delaite, Jun 22, 2015
  3. 3/6 bisect: simplify the addition of new bisect termsAntoine Delaite, Jun 22, 2015
  4. 4/6 bisect: add the terms old/newAntoine Delaite, Jun 22, 2015
  5. 5/6 revision: fix rev-list --bisect in old/new modeAntoine Delaite, Jun 22, 2015
  6. 6/6 bisect: allows any terms set by userAntoine Delaite, Jun 22, 2015
  7. 0/5 git bisect old/newMatthieu Moy, Jun 23, 2015
  8. 1/5 bisect: correction of typoMatthieu Moy, Jun 23, 2015
  9. 2/5 bisect: replace hardcoded "bad|good" by variablesMatthieu Moy, Jun 23, 2015
  10. 3/5 bisect: simplify the addition of new bisect termsMatthieu Moy, Jun 23, 2015
  11. Eric SunshineJun 23, 2015
  12. Matthieu MoyJun 23, 2015
  13. 4/5 bisect: add the terms old/newMatthieu Moy, Jun 23, 2015
  14. Remi Galan AlfonsoJun 23, 2015
  15. Matthieu MoyJun 23, 2015
  16. 5/5 bisect: allows any terms set by userMatthieu Moy, Jun 23, 2015
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2015
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2015
  19. Matthieu MoyJun 23, 2015
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2015
  21. 0/5 Bisect termsMatthieu Moy, Jun 24, 2015
  22. 1/5 bisect: correction of typoMatthieu Moy, Jun 24, 2015
  23. 2/5 bisect: replace hardcoded "bad|good" by variablesMatthieu Moy, Jun 24, 2015
  24. 3/5 bisect: simplify the addition of new bisect termsMatthieu Moy, Jun 24, 2015
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2015
  26. Matthieu MoyJun 24, 2015
  27. 4/5 bisect: add the terms old/newMatthieu Moy, Jun 24, 2015
  28. 5/5 bisect: allow any terms set by userMatthieu Moy, Jun 24, 2015
  29. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2015
  30. Matthieu MoyJun 24, 2015
  31. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2015
  32. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2015
  33. 0/5 bisect termsMatthieu Moy, Jun 25, 2015
  34. 1/5 bisect: correction of typoMatthieu Moy, Jun 25, 2015
  35. 2/5 bisect: replace hardcoded "bad|good" by variablesMatthieu Moy, Jun 25, 2015
  36. 3/5 bisect: simplify the addition of new bisect termsMatthieu Moy, Jun 25, 2015
  37. 4/5 bisect: add the terms old/newMatthieu Moy, Jun 25, 2015
  38. Christian CouderJun 26, 2015
  39. Matthieu MoyJun 26, 2015
  40. 5/5 bisect: allow any terms set by userMatthieu Moy, Jun 25, 2015
  41. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2015
  42. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2015
  43. Matthieu MoyJun 26, 2015
  44. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2015
  45. Matthieu MoyJun 26, 2015
  46. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2015
  47. Matthieu MoyJun 26, 2015
  48. Matthieu MoyJun 26, 2015

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