From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: Re: git bisect problems/ideas Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:05:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <855249CA-A006-475C-8F96-EFD614795064@gmail.com> <20110117115133.GA29207@burratino> <20110117133843.GA23625@neumann> <20110117205542.GA21507@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?SZEDER_G=E1bor?= , "Aaron S. Meurer" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 18 10:05:49 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 1Pf7VW-0000nm-Kt for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:05:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752955Ab1ARJFg convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:05:36 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:52559 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751673Ab1ARJFf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:05:35 -0500 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so6238718wwa.1 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:05:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ld+V6bqn6UneUIuJA/CcqLfzzo5w8pKYQEUtFayzXh0=; b=aMRK6L/BvE49aptTySlreOH6N5P4HHKp3XmM9EWSaIjL5vtRt1VvmpdSKwV5jzba2e fRovxG/9lHMgu91/8SnkddoR0WDOpgQoUXGEekMnTcwYNE8fu6aPE4JJr+8ozCXGX/sK eIk0QySHsN+VAHI45Q2qKkWs1j7OMWbxDVfNs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=s+ITQisxMp4Cz5n65w0HFYP487dMwA4PFXoXpc6g2MCiGxqlamMWELbL2V6UiajPWi sb2EUY2GgM27elSHZjRD22ofgzL5D2kFZH4/mpOBr/wtFHIsTCloMMDRjyIHy84rh4vI nvA2wXid3bq+WFCO16Xw07u+OJmeg1WHyLCEQ= Received: by 10.216.48.211 with SMTP id v61mr4352901web.35.1295341533481; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:05:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.50.129 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:05:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110117205542.GA21507@burratino> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2011/1/17 Jonathan Nieder : > SZEDER G=E1bor 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 u= se >>>> some aliases for "good" and "bad", but there was no agreement. Oth= er >>>> suggestions had a patch attached but the patch was not good enough= or >>>> something. >>> >>> Any pointers to such a discussion or patch? =A0Maybe whatever small >>> detail caused it to be forgotten could be fixed... >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063 Thanks for the link. > A better link for those who are thinking of picking up the topic migh= t > be [1]. > > The problems were: > > =A0- error messages refer to "good" and "bad" with the original, > =A0 unreversed meaning, which could be confusing (but see later in th= e > =A0 thread!). > =A0- "git bisect visualize" doesn't get the memo about the new worldv= iew. > =A0- 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 confusin= g > bits are clearly documented. Yeah, some things have changed since that time, so it may be more involved now, but otherwise I think it would be good to have. Thanks, Christian.