On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:18:18 -0400, Ken Hornstein said:

> I had to do a reverse-bisect to find this commit, which was kind of
> interesting (git bisect only works to find something that WAS working
> but is now broken; you have to use git porcelain commands to do the
> reverse).

Actually, it's trivial to do a reverse bisect - just reverse the 'good'
and 'bad'.

git bisect start
git bisect <known-working-commit> bad
git bisect <known-busted-commit> good

and at each step, use 'bisect bad' if it worked, and 'bisect good' if it
was still failing.

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