From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:13:28 +0200 Message-ID: <86myuhg1nb.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <20071014142826.8caa0a9f.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <856417h9cj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200710171810.56215.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 17 18:20:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IiBdN-00022X-9R for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:20:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763729AbXJQQUR (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:20:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760852AbXJQQUR (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:20:17 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46043 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758075AbXJQQUP (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:20:15 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IiBco-0001qh-TC for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:20:02 +0000 Received: from pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.91.15.219]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:20:02 +0000 Received: from dak by pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:20:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7wT7dZD+X/06uIse2GrxrVfsPq4= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Robin Rosenberg writes: > tisdag 16 oktober 2007 skrev David Kastrup: >> "David Symonds" writes: >> >> > On 16/10/2007, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Geert Bosch writes: >> >> >> >> > On Oct 15, 2007, at 13:53, David Symonds wrote: >> >> >> That's also why I suggested "skip"; you might not be able to test a >> >> >> particular commit, but you might also not *want* to test a particular >> >> >> commit for some reason. >> >> > >> >> > Skip seems a great choice: it directly expresses the wish to >> >> > not consider a certain commit. The reason is unimportant. >> >> >> >> But it is an _action_, while "good" and "bad" are properties. >> > >> > "skipped", then. >> >> "good" and "bad" are descriptive. "to be skipped" would be necessary >> to fit it. > > Yet another very short word: void. It is not "yet another": I already explained why it does not fit. -- David Kastrup