From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: darxus@chaosreigns.com Subject: Feature request: don't require both bad and good when bisecting Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:29:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20120318212957.GS1219@chaosreigns.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 18 22:36:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S9NmT-0006mK-5G for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:36:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753116Ab2CRVgO (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:36:14 -0400 Received: from panic.chaosreigns.com ([64.71.152.40]:38003 "EHLO panic.chaosreigns.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751749Ab2CRVgO (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:36:14 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 377 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:36:14 EDT Received: by panic.chaosreigns.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 45C481C5492; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:29:57 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=chaosreigns.com; s=mail; t=1332106197; bh=NQGtYjaG0Gn4g2Rw8QwRmnr+Fro4oUM2UjUKrmJsNrc=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=snGN7udm95Fmv0svORAFBWmaTx6bnkQZyTAQZ9j9v5OrlFzadv/sgcjacAVMeD8sl om8Jy+1tLeXMoyxz8uk4DMOeraO1wSl/IutT0UBrUISSQgmWJqmQoa5kAgBeUFkVya 8WUZCHsEa7C/rbXHOabtvzq0cohIejyEjZ5gUBYk= Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'd like to be able to tell get only that I know the latest commit is bad, and have it go find a good commit, then do the bisecting. Maybe something like the opposite of a binary search, start with the last commit, then second to last, then 4th to last, 8th to last, etc., till it finds a good commit. -- "This hurts quite a bit. Very painful." "Think of the sensation as reassurance that you are not dead yet. What you are feeling is life in you!" - Johnny The Homicidal Maniac http://www.ChaosReigns.com