From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: git bisect problems/ideas Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:51:33 -0600 Message-ID: <20110117115133.GA29207@burratino> References: <855249CA-A006-475C-8F96-EFD614795064@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Aaron S. Meurer" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Couder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 17 12:52:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pend2-000899-Vx for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:52:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753364Ab1AQLv7 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:51:59 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:64855 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753348Ab1AQLvz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:51:55 -0500 Received: by iyj18 with SMTP id 18so4530795iyj.19 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:51:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=FQLBsdfrR4JzuTqjlMIHPERgBICt7gzXYx4ma+7I3/c=; b=PX0AKOBBmb+GZuq2LoPYQcLZqFPfwJ6bSRX81KcNVJt6uEq53HNAhw5b+F9Ckh9OqI A8CHMBt+ByQF6I0f9FKGXsFc67rgIRcoTVQ0o2E4hH8LLLWCBJTHmOAH4V9BN1abLeZe lLHjKpf2X198k8klhZyYGXaICUVHXMLAEi3Rs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=v0UhGElN4ZeQ5WYPJXGS7NHQAnxorfZlC8fSY2qM4+6vj1S72NSKsdwZhZDxQb/BW0 yLC+lySi5BMlpColPBOYooGwsoYsNDZiT/v8hZSyRxOHkZ9QaW9TuSgvt231mrHole5x HdELanKcG8qDf3JmMMh/pOGFOc92GDUCJi8ZA= Received: by 10.42.230.133 with SMTP id jm5mr4375845icb.424.1295265113952; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from burratino ([69.209.76.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g4sm2649900ick.23.2011.01.17.03.51.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:51:53 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, > Aaron S. Meurer wrote: >> 90% of the time I do not >> want to go back to where I started bisecting. =C2=A0I would much pre= fer to just >> have a git bisect stop command [which does "git bisect reset HEAD"] =46WIW I like the idea. I end up using "git bisect reset" by accident from time to time and it is almost never what I want, especially after working on something else for a few days[1]. My only worry is that it could be confusing --- what if a person, intending to run "git bisect reset", runs "git bisect stop" instead? To mitigate that, the stop subcommand could print the name of the start commit so such a user knows what to check out to get back to a familiar state. Christian Couder wrote: > Yeah, many people find it difficult to reverse the meaning of "bad" > and "good" when looking for a fix. There were some suggestions at som= e > points to do something about it. Some of the suggestions were to use > some aliases for "good" and "bad", but there was no agreement. Other > suggestions had a patch attached but the patch was not good enough or > something. Any pointers to such a discussion or patch? Maybe whatever small detail caused it to be forgotten could be fixed... Ciao, Jonathan [1] compare am --abort: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/164002