Re: Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base

2016-01-04 Thread Junio C Hamano
Andy Lutomirski writes: > Anyway, the idea of merging test commits up to some lowest common > denominator seems generally useful to me, and the idea of specifying a > 'prepare the checked-out tree' (as you suggested, where 'git merge > --no-commit whatever' would be specified) would also be handy

Re: Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base

2016-01-04 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andy Lutomirski writes: > >> git bisect run is great, but it's not so great when the test process >> is "sudo make modules_install && sudo make install && reboot", then >> boot new kernel, then run emacs, then see if it worked... There >>

Re: Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base

2016-01-04 Thread Junio C Hamano
Andy Lutomirski writes: > git bisect run is great, but it's not so great when the test process > is "sudo make modules_install && sudo make install && reboot", then > boot new kernel, then run emacs, then see if it worked... There > doesn't appear to be a 'git bisect run' option to pause and wai

Re: Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base

2016-01-04 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andy Lutomirski writes: > >> I'm currently bisecting a Linux bug on my laptop. The starting good >> commit is v4.4-rc3 and the starting bad commit is v4.4-rc7. >> Unfortunately, anything much older than v4.4-rc3 doesn't boot at all. >> >>

Re: Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base

2015-12-30 Thread Junio C Hamano
Andy Lutomirski writes: > I'm currently bisecting a Linux bug on my laptop. The starting good > commit is v4.4-rc3 and the starting bad commit is v4.4-rc7. > Unfortunately, anything much older than v4.4-rc3 doesn't boot at all. > > I'd like to say: > > $ git bisect merge-to v4.4-rc3 > > or simil

Re: Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base

2015-12-30 Thread Christian Couder
Hi, On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Hi- > > I'm currently bisecting a Linux bug on my laptop. The starting good > commit is v4.4-rc3 and the starting bad commit is v4.4-rc7. > Unfortunately, anything much older than v4.4-rc3 doesn't boot at all. > > I'd like to say: >

Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base

2015-12-30 Thread Andy Lutomirski
Hi- I'm currently bisecting a Linux bug on my laptop. The starting good commit is v4.4-rc3 and the starting bad commit is v4.4-rc7. Unfortunately, anything much older than v4.4-rc3 doesn't boot at all. I'd like to say: $ git bisect merge-to v4.4-rc3 or similar. The effect would be that, rathe