On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Christian Couder
<chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 30 July 2011 10:28:26 Jon Seymour wrote:
>> For some bisection tasks, checking out the commit at each stage of the
>> bisection process is unecessary or undesirable.
>>
>> This series adds support for a --no-checkout[=<ref>] option to git-bisect.
>
> Sorry but I didn't reply to your previous email when you asked about a "--no-
> checkout[=<ref>]" compromise. I thought that Junio would reply and then I
> forgot about it.
>
> My opinion is that if you really want to be able to use another ref, then
> there should be a special "--update-ref=<ref>" or "--use-ref=<ref>" option
> that is different from "--no-checkout".
>
> "--no-checkout" looks like a boolean argument. And "--no-checkout[=<ref>]" may
> make the user think that this option will not checkout <ref>, and then it
> leads to the confusing question "but why would it checkout this f&#@ing ref in
> the first place?".
Good suggestions.
So, to confirm that I understand:
use --no-checkout to control (no-)checkout behaviour and
--update-ref to specify a ref other than HEAD?
jon.
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