From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:11:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] bisect: simplify the add of new bisect terms
Message-ID: <xmqqoaknmtlw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqvbevr3eh.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> 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.