Hallo Christian, > Something like: > > $ git bisect run ! grep string my_file > > does not work right now, probably because '!' is a shell keyword. I didn't check you patch in deep, but you should consider that the special meaning of "!" isn't implemented in the original Bourne Shell[1]. IIRC this or something similar was brought up some time ago and the result was, that your script has to do the negation if needed. Best regards Uwe [1] login@~ > uname -a SunOS login 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc login@~ > /bin/sh -c "! true" /bin/sh: !: not found -- Uwe Kleine-König cal 9 1752 | grep 10 - 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