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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
	Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "git bisect" takes exactly one bad commit and one or more good?
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:34:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8tfcevev.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD1=idL51XDzE_RKc_7z9NghTd7GHoZ-T61y0rQ8ZYXomw@mail.gmail.com> (Christian Couder's message of "Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:01:43 +0100")

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

>> "You use it by first telling it a "bad" commit that is known to
>> contain the bug, and a "good" commit that is known to be before the
>> bug was introduced."
>
> Yeah, 'and at least a "good" commit' would be better.

Make it "at least one" instead, perhaps?

I somehow thought that you technically could force bisection with 0
good commit, even though no sane person would do so.  For the
matter, in practice nobody starts with more than one good commit,
and for that reason, I doubt that the proposed change to overstress
the fact that you could give two or more "good" ones when starting
has that much practical value.  The tradeoff of losing the clarity
coming from giving only the simplest usage pattern for trying to be
technically more correct that is proposed by this change does not
sound too good, but it may be just me (who prefers white lies in the
end-user docs when it buys us more simplicity and clarity).
.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-11 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-11 11:22 "git bisect" takes exactly one bad commit and one or more good? Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-11 12:01 ` Christian Couder
2017-11-11 14:34   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-11-11 15:27     ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-12 12:14       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-11 16:03     ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-12 21:13     ` Stephan Beyer

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