bisect run, was Re: More git bisect modes

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Hi,

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> [...] personally I never felt the need for "run" to work without any bad 
> one, as the first few rounds would almost always end up to be a 
> debugging session of the run script for me, as in:
> 
> 	... oh, somebody broke this somewhere ...
> 	... write a validate script ...
> 	$ edit runme ; chmod +x runme
>         $ ./runme
>         ... yeah, it is broken and runme script detects breakage
>         $ git checkout HEAD~200
>         $ ./runme
>         ... ok, it used to work here and runme exits Ok
>         $ git bisect good
>         $ git bisect bad @{-1}
>         $ ./runme
>         ... ok, runme script appears to be ok
>         $ git bisect run ./runme

That reminds me of a personal gripe with "bisect run": You cannot use it 
like this:

	$ git bisect run 'make test'

as it interprets 'make test' as a name of an executable.  That makes 
'bisect run' rather less useful to me.

Ciao,
Dscho

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