rfe: bisecting with a tristate

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Hi,


I have an idea about handling commits that do not compile at 
all in git-bisect.
For example:

git bisect start
git bisect bad v2.6.23-rc1
# bad: [f695baf2df9e0413d3521661070103711545207a] Linux 2.6.23-rc1
git bisect good v2.6.22
# good: [098fd16f00005f665d3baa7e682d8cb3d7c0fe6f] Linux 2.6.22

Then 1f1c2881f673671539b25686df463518d69c4649 will be the next commit 
git bisect hands out. Now let's assume this commit would not compile. 
What would the user do? git-bisect good or git-bisect bad?

Assume a commit previous to 1f..49 caused an oops (but the user does not 
know yet), and the user said 'good' on 1f..49 because he did not know 
what to say (since it did not compile). Then bisect would go the wrong 
way, marking all left to 1f..49 as good.


Ideally, there should be like "git bisect dunno-try-left" and "git 
bisect dunno-try-right", which allow the user to skip checking 1f..49 
and instead try the next commit left or right of 1f..49 (to either go to 
a commit before the compile failure, or after it).

[ What's `git-bisect next` for? ]



	Jan
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