On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 05:54:39PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:48:13AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell 
> > <vi...@viric.name>wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > fossil bisect currently only allows 'good' or 'bad'. Looking for the
> > > introduction of a bug requires also the state of "can't test", because a
> > > checkin
> > > could be so broken that doesn't allow determining if the checkin is 'good'
> > > or
> > > 'bad'.
> > >
> > > Could that 3rd state be introduced? Git allows it easily, for example.
> > >
> > 
> > What does bisect do when you give it a "can't test"?
> 
> Suggest another version to test, and keep on going.

Look for 'skip' in git-bisect(1). I think that explains better my idea.

Notice that there is a 'git bisect run' error code that the program can return,
to indicate 'skip'.

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