From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain•net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse"
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:20:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1CBF7A.3090708@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A1CACB2.7000702@vilain.net>
Sam Vilain wrote:
>
> Oh, yes. And another thing: 'git bisect run' / 'git bisect skip'
> doesn't do a very good job of skipping around broken commits (ie when
> the script returns 126). It just seems to move to the next one; it
> would be much better IMHO to first try the commit 1/3rd of the way into
> the range, then if that fails, the commit 2/3rd of the way through it, etc.
>
I posted about that last year:
http://marc.info/?l=git&i=48F3DCEB.1060803@zytor.com
At the time, git bisect was still done in the shell and it was deemed
too difficult.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 22:21 RFE: "git bisect reverse" H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-27 3:00 ` Sam Vilain
2009-05-27 4:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-05-27 5:26 ` Christian Couder
2009-05-27 21:11 ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-27 21:18 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-05-27 22:07 ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-27 23:08 ` Sam Vilain
2009-05-28 20:29 ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-29 4:20 ` Sam Vilain
2009-05-31 22:41 ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-28 3:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-28 21:07 ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-28 21:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-31 22:18 ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-05-27 20:11 ` Christian Couder
2009-05-27 8:22 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-05-27 20:26 ` Matthieu Moy
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