Re: [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

> Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> 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.

Well, this has been debated to death, but I actually think that "skip" is 
a good choice, exactly because it's an action.

"good" and "bad" do indeed describe properties of the commit, and are used 
to describe the state of the tree in question. In contrast, "git bisect 
skip" says not somethign about the state of that tree - it talks about 
what we should *do* with that tree.

IOW, I think "git bisect skip" in some sense has more to do with an action 
like "git bisect start", than with "good" or "bad". 

(Yes, "good" and "bad" have an action associated with them too - namely to 
start the next bisection event - but they are not named according to the 
action they cause, but because they describe the tree state)

			Linus