On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 7:19 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 01:39:46PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > At the end of the bisection session, bisect.c::show_diff_tree() is > > called on that "culprit" commit. Is it possible that 3a9388ee is a > > simple and trivial merge that does not have anything worth reporting > > for "git diff-tree"? > > I've run across this many times, too. Since it's been bugging me for a > decade, I thought I'd finally try to address it. Here are some patches. > > There was some discussion about a year ago about just using "git show" > for this output: > > https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD3QhTUj+j3vBGrm0sTQ2dSOLS-m2_PwFj6DZS4VZHKRTQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Christian seemed generally OK with tweaking the output, but preferred > not to move all the way to running an external "git show". Yeah, I am still OK with tweaking the output, though I'd rather not go back to using an external process. > I'm not sure > I completely agree, but it was easy enough to get the results I wanted > just by fiddling the current code a bit. ;) > > [1/3]: bisect: use string arguments to feed internal diff-tree > [2/3]: bisect: fix internal diff-tree config loading > [3/3]: bisect: make diff-tree output prettier I am OK with the above patches. Thanks, Christian. > bisect.c | 19 +++++-------------- > t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh | 6 +++--- > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > -Peff