Re: git bisect problems/ideas

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 05:51:33AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> 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 some
>>> 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...
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063

A better link for those who are thinking of picking up the topic might
be [1].

The problems were:

 - error messages refer to "good" and "bad" with the original,
   unreversed meaning, which could be confusing (but see later in the
   thread!).
 - "git bisect visualize" doesn't get the memo about the new worldview.
 - it seems that some people lost interest after a while.

None of these seems totally fatal --- as a new feature, it would not
be breaking anyone's workflow, especially if the potentially confusing
bits are clearly documented.

Thanks.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86089/focus=86161