On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, Bruce Korb wrote:
> (Alan -- sorry for duplicate reply. iPad seems to really like HTML, so
> it bounced.)
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Bruce Korb wrote:
> > The number of tagged commits has nothing to do with it. Bisection
> > involves testing _all_ the commits. (But not one at a time,
> > obviously!)
>
> I do understand binary searches ("bisection" commit searches).
> The full search range would be v4.1 through v4.5.
> The tags are just convenient markers for commits, after all.
> I would guess you'd search on the tag points before
> searching between individual commits between tags.
You can if you want to, but git bisect ignores tags. It will divide up
the entire set of commits from the start point to the end point into
roughly equal halves at each step.
Alan Stern
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