Re: Why can't I use git-bisect to find the first *good* commit?

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Andrew Garber <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>      o--o--o--B
>>     /
>>  --o--o--o--o--G
>>
>> When I have this history and I mark B as bad and G as good, will I now
>> find the first bad or the first good commit?
>
> That kind of situation shouldn't occur: IMO, bisect should only deal
> with a single branch (the current branch).

Why?

It's not uncommon in real life to face the "it works in branch foo but
not in branch bar, where did it break?" problem. And one expects a great
tool such as Git to be able to answer it.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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