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On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I think you fundamentally cannot use two labels that are merely
> "distinct" and bisect correctly.  You need to know which ones
> (i.e. good) are to be excluded and the other (i.e. bad) are to be
> included when computing the "remaining to be tested" set of commits.

Good point. Yes, this isn't viable.