From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: git bisect problems/ideas Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:55:42 -0600 Message-ID: <20110117205542.GA21507@burratino> References: <855249CA-A006-475C-8F96-EFD614795064@gmail.com> <20110117115133.GA29207@burratino> <20110117133843.GA23625@neumann> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Christian Couder , "Aaron S. Meurer" , git@vger.kernel.org To: SZEDER =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 17 21:56:06 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 1Pew7Q-0003NM-FK for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:56:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751770Ab1AQUz4 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:55:56 -0500 Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:46655 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750993Ab1AQUz4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:55:56 -0500 Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so2175698vws.19 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:55:55 -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=o7kqmnQxM5v9jjus/cpZCtihWXnwnLEz/5hQxDczsT4=; b=RN0rfZUS02k6qPF2zxUwp8bXg9vRMzSLnI8cBsK5h516UFvQak1mBlFBuDqCFkhgT8 oAkHCXEF8WjiGTlXGfzQPoZ1G2+0XALB8ocjz8ijcwSN7i8w/t7Eq4z3BdD3RieMmFkO Aku215oZ1HEGniwftL6c1SUz3K3YmEzQU85ik= 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=XU8cDbzLuXoFTHuqe0qBVhXfqFUR/mkOgaFHG/2J0/mu78TmBfHQtOlPLlFFFL0SHt G/MTpnyIObz3LVrciwkFtNZwHZXNPiAQAWSNOaYKwGugET2Uu1D5LdmeymlzJ89U23te Dy8FlI4KZjWaLhh/A71tY18cvKDIQ3ONEPNH0= Received: by 10.220.200.135 with SMTP id ew7mr1534251vcb.37.1295297753340; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:55:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from burratino (adsl-69-209-76-37.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net [69.209.76.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w26sm1350225vcf.21.2011.01.17.12.55.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:55:51 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110117133843.GA23625@neumann> 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: SZEDER G=C3=A1bor 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 s= ome >>> points to do something about it. Some of the suggestions were to us= e >>> some aliases for "good" and "bad", but there was no agreement. Othe= r >>> 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=3D= 86161