From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD875C4363A for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9852087C for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="cdEUedYj" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1789280AbgJZSNl (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:13:41 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com ([173.228.157.52]:55715 "EHLO pb-smtp20.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1789277AbgJZSNl (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:13:41 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F78910C6EB; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:13:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=//sHC4i89jswermBb0aj2XUYlJc=; b=cdEUed YjScOHGmIu8ymJujs0Xo4bFIVtuzzXmFYkA6wjyA7XpduNdxqpvFgHVZsmVBIIua E++5TWQhEUMwHnbKPh5+QecOiPMaPBpQr68hNwUv4UIGmv/NWR4xaVeDfTk9wwXQ EqXu1iMaSX9E+ymojPoO0b6vmVzg7KoG7OQvI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=EhRrbICA/gnB7rQM9AX6vO2Kzn9QD1Xs IVDXwmzXVthE+CSmP/pnqucGj8E7rApBLaNdHwLyj7N0rqL+jNzmTbvWJ4cPZcZJ fQaslnNjWBli26GexuqERJ//BTluNxOGGBZgEOtPYL/0pF6leWgkzyATx8yCwDVI hATG0x8rEbM= Received: from pb-smtp20.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5951D10C6EA; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:13:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.74.119.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7183A10C6E9; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:13:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Philip Oakley Cc: Christian Couder , Manuel =?utf-8?Q?B?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A4renz?= , git Subject: Re: Feature request: Exponential search in git bisect References: <945ab20e-dcde-540e-83a5-83992c2187b1@enigmage.de> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:13:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Philip Oakley's message of "Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:15:20 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F7435848-17B6-11EB-A145-E43E2BB96649-77302942!pb-smtp20.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Philip Oakley writes: >> Ok, but the conclusion of the above discussion is that the problem >> with this idea is being able to distinguish between a commit that is >> bad and a commit where the feature that you want to test cannot be >> tested for example because it hasn't been implemented yet. > > Does any of the proposed improvement in the "bisect: loosen halfway() > check for a large number of commits" > https://lore.kernel.org/git/20201022103806.26680-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com/ > assist in this. I doubt it. If you cannot say if a rev is testable or not, it would not help you much if Git asked "is this good, bad or untestable?" question 5 times faster, I suspect.