On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote: > Christian Couder <christian.cou...@gmail.com> writes: > >> In practice though, as git bisect is a kind of binary search, if what >> you want to exclude is exclusively touched by half the commits, it >> will only add one more bisection step if you don't exclude it. > > Actually, I think the same remark would apply to any other Git command > that deal with a set of revisions. If you want to review code with "git > log -p", but you don't care about a subdirectory, you may want a "git > log -p --ignore-dir foo/" or so, too.
Yeah, and there was a patch series about that 2 years ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182830/ > And then, the "it's logarithmic" argument doesn't work anymore ;-). Sure. Best regards, Christian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
