linux-kernel - RE: Alternative to 'git bisect visualize'?

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Message-ID: <05ad01c77ba8$cd753040$294b82ce@stuartm>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:45:33 -0400
From:	"Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@...necttech.com>
To:	"'Paolo Ornati'" <ornati@...twebnet.it>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Alternative to 'git bisect visualize'?

From: Paolo Ornati [mailto:ornati@...twebnet.it] 
> I think this should work:
> 
> 1) look at "git-bisect log" and take the last good/bad pair
> 
> 2) "cat .git/refs/heads/bisect" to see where you are now
> 
> 3) git-log --pretty=oneline GOOD..BAD
> 
> 4) search for the current commit (found in #2) with "/CURRENT_COMMIT",
> now move around and choose another commit to test
> 
> 5) git-reset --hard COMMIT_TO_TEST

That is exactly what I needed, many many thanks. I have moved off the
broken area of commits and am back into bisecting.

Where would be the appropriate place to submit this as a feature
request, to complement "git bisect visualize"; git, LKML or somewhere
else? I'm picturing an ncurses/menuconfig-style app.

..Stu

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