From: Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Allow git bisect to auto-skip
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 11:16:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e896da79-c87b-4475-9890-10051d8ddf76@haller-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqle68x008.fsf@gitster.g>
On 23.03.24 19:43, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> On 22.03.24 23:31, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> It often is discovered that a commit
>>> breaks bisection after the fact and it is not feasible to rebase
>>> all the history after the commit.
>>
>> This reminds me of a similar problem with git blame, for which we have
>> the blame.ignoreRevsFile config to work around it. Couldn't there be a
>> similar mechanism for bisect, e.g. bisect.skipRevsFile?
>
> A Very good point. If a breakage of a commit is "this does not even
> build" kind of breakage, such a mechanism would be an excellent fit.
>
> But if a breakage is "only this particular test fails and we know
> the reason why it fails has nothing to do with the bug we are
> chasing", then compiling such a fixed list of commits, or pointing
> at such a list with a configuration variable, would not work very
> well, I am afraid.
That's true, but the same can be said about blame.ignoreRevsFile. There
may be commits that contain both uninteresting whitespace changes and
real changes (not in a well-maintained project of course :-), so it
wouldn't be a good idea to add those to blame.ignoreRevsFile. But that's
not a reason not to offer the feature at all.
-Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-24 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-22 22:18 Allow git bisect to auto-skip Olliver Schinagl
2024-03-22 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-23 1:59 ` Olliver Schinagl
2024-03-23 13:51 ` Stefan Haller
2024-03-23 18:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-23 20:51 ` Olliver Schinagl
2024-03-24 7:47 ` Olliver Schinagl
2024-03-24 10:16 ` Stefan Haller [this message]
2024-03-24 14:29 ` Christian Couder
2024-03-24 16:04 ` rsbecker
2024-03-24 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-27 18:33 ` Olliver Schinagl
2024-03-27 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-28 8:01 ` Olliver Schinagl
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