Re: RFE: "git bisect reverse"

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Le Wednesday 27 May 2009, Sam Vilain a écrit :
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > I would like to request the following feature:
> >
> > "git bisect reverse"
> >
> > ... does exactly the same thing as "git bisect start", except that it
> > flips the meaning of "good" and "bad".  It is mentally fairly taxing to
> > do a reverse bisection (looking for an antiregression) when one has to
> > flip the meaning of "good" and "bad" (which are very loaded words to
> > our psyche), and it's even worse to try to get a user to do it...
>
> Oh, yes.  And another thing: 'git bisect run' / 'git bisect skip'
> doesn't do a very good job of skipping around broken commits (ie when
> the script returns 126).

s/126/125/

> It just seems to move to the next one; it 
> would be much better IMHO to first try the commit 1/3rd of the way into
> the range, then if that fails, the commit 2/3rd of the way through it,
> etc.

Regards,
Christian.
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