Re: totally confused as to what "git bisect skip" is supposed to do

2018-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Christian Couder wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > p.s. i suspect i should RTFS to see exactly how git bisect does its > > work. > > You might want to read > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect-lk2009.html before reading the > source

Re: totally confused as to what "git bisect skip" is supposed to do

2018-02-13 Thread Christian Couder
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > p.s. i suspect i should RTFS to see exactly how git bisect does its > work. You might want to read https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect-lk2009.html before reading the source code.

Re: totally confused as to what "git bisect skip" is supposed to do

2018-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Christian Couder wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> "Robert P. J. Day" writes: > >> > >> > i'm confused ... why, after skipping a good chunk in the interval > >> > [v4.13,v4.14], do i

Re: totally confused as to what "git bisect skip" is supposed to do

2018-02-12 Thread Christian Couder
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> "Robert P. J. Day" writes: >> >> > i'm confused ... why, after skipping a good chunk in the interval >> > [v4.13,v4.14], do i still have exactly 7300 revisions to bisect? what >> > am i so

Re: totally confused as to what "git bisect skip" is supposed to do

2018-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" writes: > > > i'm confused ... why, after skipping a good chunk in the interval > > [v4.13,v4.14], do i still have exactly 7300 revisions to bisect? what > > am i so hopelessly misunderstanding here? > > Are you really "skipping" a

Re: totally confused as to what "git bisect skip" is supposed to do

2018-02-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" writes: > > > i'm confused ... why, after skipping a good chunk in the > > interval [v4.13,v4.14], do i still have exactly 7300 revisions to > > bisect? what am i so hopelessly misunderstanding here? > > Are you really "skipping" a

Re: totally confused as to what "git bisect skip" is supposed to do

2018-02-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Robert P. J. Day" writes: > i'm confused ... why, after skipping a good chunk in the interval > [v4.13,v4.14], do i still have exactly 7300 revisions to bisect? what > am i so hopelessly misunderstanding here? Are you really "skipping" a chunk in the interval? I thought that "git bisect skip