Re: [PATCH 0/4] make it possible to skip away from broken commits

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Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This patch series adds a "--ratio=x/y" option to "git bisect skip" so
> that it is possible to skip away from an area were the commits cannot
> be tested.
>
> Note that in this series "--ratio=4" means the same as "--ratio=1/4".
> But I am not sure if this shortcut is worth it.

Actually my gut feeling is that a tweakable knob itself is worth it,
because the user can never tell what the right value should be.

Especially without any documentation updates that explains what this ratio
refers to ;-), but I suspect, unless the user is very familiar with how
the revision graph bisection internally works, such an explanation would
not help him find a skip ratio that is closer to the optimum than a random
guess.  Why not use a constant ratio (or perhaps a pair of alternating
ratios) on "bisect skip" without any new options?




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