# git-bisect doesnt record bad commits 3 messages from 2006-02-06 to 2006-02-06. Participants: Olaf Hering, Linus Torvalds. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3252 ## Olaf Hering, 2006-02-06 21:54 Subject: git-bisect doesnt record bad commits Message-ID: <20060206215442.GA12209@suse.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060206215442.GA12209%40suse.de ``` Is there a reason why git-bisect does only record good ones? I would really like to know which commits did crash for me. :( 2006-02-05 14:07 .git/refs/bisect/good-a020ff412f0ecbb1e4aae1681b287e5785dd77b5 2006-02-05 21:25 .git/refs/bisect/good-f61ea1b0c825a20a1826bb43a226387091934586 2006-02-06 07:02 .git/refs/bisect/good-f2e46561cc1afa82b18b2fc6efc8510ec57c7d7d 2006-02-06 10:24 .git/refs/bisect/good-d779188d2baf436e67fe8816fca2ef53d246900f 2006-02-06 14:37 .git/refs/bisect/good-1cb9e8e01d2c73184e2074f37cd155b3c4fdaae6 2006-02-06 17:43 .git/refs/bisect/good-54e08a2392e99ba9e48ce1060e0b52a39118419c 2006-02-06 19:52 .git/refs/bisect/bad 2006-02-06 21:57 .git/refs/bisect/good-4a4efbdee278b2f4ed91aad2db5c006ff754276e -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan ``` ## Linus Torvalds, 2006-02-06 22:21 Subject: Re: git-bisect doesnt record bad commits Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0602061417510.3854%40g5.osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20060206215442.GA12209@suse.de> ``` On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Olaf Hering wrote: > > Is there a reason why git-bisect does only record good ones? I would > really like to know which commits did crash for me. :( It does. Look in the bisection log (".git/BISECT_LOG"). Now, the reason it doesn't actually save them away as _tags_ is because technically, it doesn't need to. The algorithm itself only really cares about the most recently marked-bad commit, and the others are totally uninteresting from an algorithmic standpoint. That said, if you want the visualization tools (for example) to show them, you could certainly _create_ the tags, if you want to. The fact that they wouldn't be used by the bisection algorithm doesn't mean that you can't create the ".git/refs/bisect/bad-" file in _addition_ to the one that marks the latest one. Linus ``` ## Olaf Hering, 2006-02-06 22:24 Subject: Re: git-bisect doesnt record bad commits Message-ID: <20060206222448.GA9196@suse.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060206222448.GA9196%40suse.de In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Feb 06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > Is there a reason why git-bisect does only record good ones? I would > > really like to know which commits did crash for me. :( > > It does. Look in the bisection log (".git/BISECT_LOG"). Thats good enough for me to restore my steps, I think. Thanks. -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan ```