From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: bdavis@saintandreas.org
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Allow git bisect in reverse mode?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:55:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACBZZX7EijsVZcwb1BkZdYEzKJbyRWGJNBKXXNRt_i47R0o08w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMK-fcye+nNyB9pFrp1nQwQC1+sQWMt_4yq2f7svJUiB=ZnnJA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:54 PM Brad Davis <bdavis@saintandreas.org> wrote:
> I'm currently trying to determine when an issue was fixed in a long
> list of commits. I attempted to do this by running `git bisect` and
> marking the commit where I knew it was broken as bad, and the tip as
> good, but I got back an error message saying that good revs weren't
> ancestors of bad ones.
>
> I'm currently working around this by mentally reversing the meanings
> of good and bad, but it feels unnatural and error prone to have to say
> `good` when I encounter the failure and `bad` when i don't.
>
> Couldn't git simply do the same thing and internally reverse the
> meaning of good and bad if the bad revision is an ancestor of the
> good?
This feature already exists. See --term-{old,good}=* in the
"git-bisect" manpage.
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2018-09-11 19:52 Allow git bisect in reverse mode? Brad Davis
2018-09-11 19:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
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