Subject: Re: git bisect with temporary commits

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:17:37 +0100

Florian Bruhin <[email-masked]> writes:

> I see - but wouldn't it make more sense for a "git bisect good" (or
> bad, respectively) without arguments to assume I mean the commit
> bisect checked out for me, not HEAD?

The problem is that there is nothing that marks the originally checked
out commit except by being pointed to by HEAD.  Also, testing a
different commit as the one suggested by git can be useful when skipping
over commits that are known to fail for unrelated reasons (see "Avoiding
testing a commit" in git-bisect(1)).

Andreas.

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