From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72ACC1F42B for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 09:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752276AbdKLJRt (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Nov 2017 04:17:49 -0500 Received: from cpanel2.indieserve.net ([199.212.143.6]:45836 "EHLO cpanel2.indieserve.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751916AbdKLJRr (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Nov 2017 04:17:47 -0500 Received: from cpec03f0ed08c7f-cm68b6fcf980b0.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.118.92.171]:55252 helo=localhost.localdomain) by cpanel2.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1eDoOf-0001gV-Jn; Sun, 12 Nov 2017 04:17:45 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 04:17:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Theodore Ts'o cc: Junio C Hamano , Christian Couder , Git Mailing list , Stephan Beyer Subject: Re: should "git bisect" support "git bisect next?" In-Reply-To: <20171111194616.a2hl4dwz5cycuzdh@thunk.org> Message-ID: References: <20171111194616.a2hl4dwz5cycuzdh@thunk.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LFD 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel2.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel2.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel2.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 11 Nov 2017, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 11:38:23PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > Thanks for saving me time to explain why 'next' is still a very > > important command but the end users do not actually need to be > > strongly aware of it, because most commands automatically invokes > > it as their final step due to the importance of what it does ;-) > > This reminds me; is there a way to suppress it because I'm about to > give a large set of good and bit commits (perhaps because I'm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > replaying part of a git biset log, minus one or two lines that are > suspected of being bogus thanks to flaky reproduction), and so > there's no point having git bisect figure the "next" commit to try > until I'm done giving it a list of good/bad commits? i'm sure i'll regret asking this, but (assuming "bit" should read "bad") is this suggesting one can hand bisect more than one bad commit? i thought we just went through that discussion where there could be only one bad commit but multiple good commits. clarification? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================