On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 17:31 +0100, Christian Couder wrote: > > When Git replays the bisect log, it only updates refs/bisect/bad, > > refs/bisect/good-*, refs/bisect/skip-* and reconstructs the log in > > .git/BISECT_LOG. After that check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad() verifies > > that all good commits are ancestors of the bad commit, and if not, the > > message "Bisecting: a merge base must be tested" is printed and the > > branch is switched to the merge base of the bad and all the good > > commits. > > I am not sure if you are talking about running `git bisect replay` or > sourcing the log in the above. I am talking about `git bisect replay`. The shell script, as far as I can see, only updates the references (ref/bisect/*) and never checks if the revisions marked as 'good' are ancestors of the 'bad' one. Therefore, $GIT_DIR/BISECT_ANCESTORS_OK file is never created. The first time the ancestors are checked is in the helper (`git-bisect- -help --next-all`) that has only limited information from refs/bisect*.
