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

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Instead of having a set of bisect/good-* refs and a single bisect-bad ref,
> your "fixed and unfixed" mode could work quite differently.  By noticing
> that the topology the user specified with initial good and bad have
> ancient bad and recent good --- that is, "it used to be bad but now it is
> good" --- you could instead use a set of bisect/bad-* refs and a single
> bisect-good ref, and feed good and bad swapped to "rev-list --bisect" in
> bisect_next().  That way, the labels given by visualize will match what
> the user is doing automatically.

... and the final answer would be "the first good commit is ...".

That would be awesome, much nicer than yet more keywords.

> I said "it makes sense in its own way", because it is _quite_ different
> from how git-bisect currently assumes, and restructuring git-bisect to
> operate naturally in a way Michael describes would be a much larger
> surgery with costs (including risks of bugs) associated with it, which
> needs to be weighed in when judging that approach would actually make
> sense.
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Nicolas