From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Burton\, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bisect needing to be at repo top-level?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:27:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbo3rz7ca.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LZ=bNNUc8O=bDDOp2vudsc_wL+-nqsXW5r1rq3H7M0e7Q@mail.gmail.com> (Ross Burton's message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:31:57 +0100")
"Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com> writes:
> Why does git-bisect need to be ran from the top level of the working
> tree? It sources git-sh-setup.sh which sets GIT_DIR, which
> git-bisect.sh then appears to consistently use. Is there a reason for
> needing to be at the top-level, or is this an old and redundant
> message?
A wild guess.
Imagine if you start from a subdirectory foo/ but the directory did
not exist in the older part of the history of the project. When
bisect needs to check out a revision that was older than the first
revision that introduced that subdirectory, what should happen?
Worse yet, if "foo" was a file in the older part of the history,
what should happen?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-17 16:31 Bisect needing to be at repo top-level? Burton, Ross
2013-09-17 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-09-17 17:58 ` Lukas Fleischer
2013-09-17 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-19 13:15 ` Ben Aveling
2013-09-19 22:46 ` Ben Aveling
2013-09-19 23:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-09 18:27 ` Stefan Beller
2013-10-09 18:55 ` Jeff King
2013-10-09 19:01 ` Stefan Beller
2013-09-17 18:38 ` Burton, Ross
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