On Monday 01 August 2011 03:00:10 Junio C Hamano wrote: > > When used without "--no-checkout" option, "bisect" need to check-out the > candidate version. What good would it do if it does _not_ update HEAD when > it does so? > > While you are correct to point out --[no-]checkout is a boolean option, > this "we do not update HEAD but update this other thing" is not orthogonal > to the option. It does not make sense when we actually touch the working > tree. Yeah. > My preference is not to play games with "we can specify a ref other than > HEAD" until somebody can demonstrate why it is a feature "because we need > to be able to do so in such and such times", not merely "because we can". So you want Jon to post a patch series with only a "--no-checkout" option. Ok. 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