From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] bisect: write about `bisect next` in documentation
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:28:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbn70g048.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56D1FB53.2020404@gmx.net> (Stephan Beyer's message of "Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:38:59 +0100")
Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx•net> writes:
> However, it probably should be documented what "git bisect next" does
> after you've specified bad and good commits.
>
> For that, I'd like to have an extra informational paragraph.
> What about: "In general, the command computes the next commit for the
> bisection and checks it out."
> This would be neutral, in the meaning that no use case is involved.
Good thinking. Thanks for being careful; I often pretend to take an
extreme position to invite a well-thought-out rebuttal, and I really
like it when people respond with a good counter-proposal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-28 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-26 2:04 [PATCH 00/16] git bisect improvements Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 01/16] bisect: write about `bisect next` in documentation Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 8:02 ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-26 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-27 13:45 ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-27 18:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-27 19:38 ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-28 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 02/16] bisect: add test for the bisect algorithm Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 6:53 ` Christian Couder
2016-02-26 21:38 ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-27 11:40 ` Christian Couder
2016-02-27 12:42 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 03/16] bisect: make bisect compile if DEBUG_BISECT is set Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 04/16] bisect: make algorithm behavior independent of DEBUG_BISECT Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 05/16] bisect: get rid of recursion in count_distance() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 06/16] bisect: use struct node_data array instead of int array Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 07/16] bisect: replace clear_distance() by unique markers Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 08/16] bisect: use commit instead of commit list as arguments when appropriate Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 3:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 09/16] bisect: extract get_distance() function from code duplication Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 10/16] bisect: introduce distance_direction() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 11/16] bisect: make total number of commits global Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 12/16] bisect: rename count_distance() to compute_weight() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 13/16] bisect: prepare for different algorithms based on find_all Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 14/16] bisect: use a modified breadth-first search to find relevant weights Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 3:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-26 20:55 ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 15/16] bisect: compute best bisection in compute_relevant_weights() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26 2:04 ` [PATCH 16/16] bisect: get back halfway shortcut Stephan Beyer
2016-03-20 18:50 ` [PATCH 00/16] git bisect improvements Pranit Bauva
2016-03-21 22:22 ` Stephan Beyer
2016-03-22 7:35 ` Christian Couder
2016-03-22 11:35 ` Pranit Bauva
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