From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:34:49 GMT
Subject: Re: An idea for "git bisect" and a GSoC enquiry
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Jacopo Notarstefano <jacopo.notarstefano@gmail.com> writes:

> Here my proposal differs in that I have no way of knowing which label
> is good and which label is bad: I blindly accept two distinct labels
> and bisect with those. I gave an example of this behaviour above.

I think you fundamentally cannot use two labels that are merely
"distinct" and bisect correctly.  You need to know which ones
(i.e. good) are to be excluded and the other (i.e. bad) are to be
included when computing the "remaining to be tested" set of commits.