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To:     Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> The idea of marking git-gui and gitk histories that none of their
> commits is checked out: it erases all Git source code from the working
> directory, and a later bisection step places all code back and it
> requires a full build. Not a big deal with Git, but there are much
> larger code bases.
>
> The current bisect behavior makes this idea unworkable. For me, it was
> a big step backwards when it was implemented. :-(

I think it is sort-of unfair to blame bisect for that.  It talks
more about how "coolest merge evar!" cross project merges are
unworkable in practice.  With a proper submodule support, nobody
should be doing it, but we started the cross project merge way
before we had submodules, so...