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Subject: Re: An idea for "git bisect" and a GSoC enquiry
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Jacopo Notarstefano <jacopo.notarstefano@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I think you fundamentally cannot use two labels that are merely
>> "distinct" and bisect correctly.  You need to know which ones
>> (i.e. good) are to be excluded and the other (i.e. bad) are to be
>> included when computing the "remaining to be tested" set of commits.
>
> Good point. Yes, this isn't viable.

But if you make them into --no-longer-X vs --still-X, then it will
be viable without us knowing what X means.