Re: [PATCH v10.1 7/7] bisect: allow any terms set by user

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Antoine Delaite <antoine.delaite@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Louis Stuber <stuberl@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10.1 7/7] bisect: allow any terms set by user
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 23:15:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPc5daWmhkqDL0pNYne4-kRoxWK7ObcOKxtE5DsfHA2cnMM1pQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558F8B55.1070708@alum.mit.edu>

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I would like to remind everybody of my old claim that it would be
> possible to teach `git bisect` to infer by itself which term means
> "older" and which term means "newer":
>
>     http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/244036

But then one mistake at the beginning and the user will be on a wrong
track during the whole bisect session, no? Unless you make absolutely
clear when making the "intelligent" decision what Git inferred, that is.

For something complex like bisect, I highly suspect that a tool that is
more intelligent than the end users (more precisely, a tool that it thinks
it is more intelligent) would hurt them more than it helps them.

Of course, that is only my claim ;-)