Re: [NON-TOY PATCH] git bisect: introduce 'fixed' and 'unfixed'

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > 	And this is my first attempt at a proper patch for it.
> > > 
> > > 	Now with documentation, and hopefully all places where the
> > > 	user is being told about a "bad" commit.
> > 
> > This looks reasonably sane to me. The only thing I can think of that
> > we're missing is that "git bisect visualize" will still show the refs as
> > "bisect/bad" and "bisect/good".
> > 
> > To fix that, you'd have to ask people to start the bisect by saying "I
> > am bisecting to find a fix, not a breakage." And then you could change
> > the refnames and all of the messages as appropriate.
> 
> That would also be a good way of taking care of the problem where someone 
> gets distracted while running a slow test, forgets what they're looking 
> for, and marks the result as "bad" instead of "unfixed".

Feel free to rework my patch.

Ciao,
Dscho