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Re: [PATCH 3/4] bisect: simplify the add of new bisect terms

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 10, 2015, 16:11 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> But I do not think it is a good idea to penalize the normal case by
>> writing the terms file and reading them back from it when the user
>> is bisecting with good/bad in the first place, so....
>
> No strong opinion on that, but creating one file doesn't cost much, and
> one advantage of writing it unconditionally is that it unifies bad/good
> and old/new more in the code. Just the creation of BISECT_TERMS becomes
> a special-case.

You have to handle that case anyway when I start bisection, which is going to take very long and I had to leave for the day to come back the next day to continue, and during the night the sysadmin updates the installed version of Git.

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Message 22 of 24 in “bisect : correction of typo”
  1. 1/4 bisect : correction of typoAntoine Delaite, Jun 8, 2015
  2. 2/4 bisect: replace hardcoded "bad|good" by variablesAntoine Delaite, Jun 8, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2015
  4. Matthieu MoyJun 9, 2015
  5. Christian CouderJun 9, 2015
  6. Matthieu MoyJun 9, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2015
  8. 3/4 bisect: simplify the add of new bisect termsAntoine Delaite, Jun 8, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2015
  10. Antoine DelaiteJun 9, 2015
  11. Matthieu MoyJun 10, 2015
  12. Matthieu MoyJun 9, 2015
  13. Christian CouderJun 9, 2015
  14. Louis-Alexandre StuberJun 9, 2015
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015
  16. Louis-Alexandre StuberJun 10, 2015
  17. Matthieu MoyJun 10, 2015
  18. Louis-Alexandre StuberJun 10, 2015
  19. Matthieu MoyJun 10, 2015
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015
  21. Matthieu MoyJun 10, 2015
  22. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2015
  23. 4/4 bisect: add the terms old/newAntoine Delaite, Jun 8, 2015
  24. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2015

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