Le Tuesday 02 June 2009, Junio C Hamano a écrit : > 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. You mean a boolean configuration variable like "bisect.skip_away" or a "--skip_away" switch to "git bisect start" or both? > 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? Ok, I will have a look at that too. Thanks, Christian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html