On Fri, 9 Feb 2018, Philip Oakley, CEng MIET wrote: > From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > writing a short tutorial on "git bisect" and, all the details of > > special exit code 125 aside, if one wanted to locate the first > > unbuildable commit, would it be sufficient to just run? > > > > $ git bisect run make > > > > as i read it, make returns either 0, 1 or 2 so there doesn't appear > > to be any possibility of weirdness with clashing with a 125 exit code. > > am i overlooking some subtle detail here i should be aware of? thanks. > > > > rday > > In the spirit of pedanticism, one should also clarify the word > "first", in that it's not a linear search for _an_ unbuildable > commit, but that one is looking for the transition between an > unbroken sequence of unbuildable commits, which transitions to > buildable commits, and its the transition that is sought. (there > could be many random unbuildable commits within a sequence in some > folks' processes!) quite so, i should have been more precise. rday
