From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:04:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH][OUTREACHY] bisect: allow `git bisect` to run from subdirectory
Message-ID: <xmqqzh4embt5.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <46b208d8-3741-d528-c833-aea5770a502c@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

>> The relevance is this: _iff_ we want to prevent `git bisect` from
>> running
>> in a subdirectory under the premise that that subdirectory might need to
>> be removed, then why don't we prevent `git rebase` from running in a
>> subdirectory when that command is equally likely to remove that
>> subdirectory?
>
> That's a good point, I'd completely missed the analogy with `rebase --exec`

I concur.  Perhaps we should make rebase a bit more careful.