git-commit-vandalism/git-bisect-script
Linus Torvalds 8cc6a08319 [PATCH] Making it easier to find which change introduced a bug
This adds a new "git bisect" command.

 - "git bisect start"
	start bisection search.

 - "git bisect bad <rev>"
	mark some version known-bad (if no arguments, then current HEAD)

 - "git bisect good <revs>..."
	mark some versions known-good (if no arguments, then current HEAD)

 - "git bisect reset <branch>"
	done with bisection search and go back to your work (if
	no arguments, then "master").

The way you use it is:

	git bisect start
	git bisect bad			# Current version is bad
	git bisect good v2.6.13-rc2	# v2.6.13-rc2 was the last version
					# tested that was good

When you give at least one bad and one good versions, it will
bisect the revision tree and say something like:

	Bisecting: 675 revisions left to test after this

and check out the state in the middle. Now, compile that kernel, and boot
it. Now, let's say that this booted kernel works fine, then just do

	git bisect good			# this one is good

which will now say

	Bisecting: 337 revisions left to test after this

and you continue along, compiling that one, testing it, and depending on
whether it is good or bad, you say "git bisect good" or "git bisect bad",
and ask for the next bisection.

Until you have no more left, and you'll have been left with the first bad
kernel rev in "refs/bisect/bad".

Oh, and then after you want to reset to the original head, do a

	git bisect reset

to get back to the master branch, instead of being in one of the bisection
branches ("git bisect start" will do that for you too, actually: it will
reset the bisection state, and before it does that it checks that you're
not using some old bisection branch).

Not really any harder than doing series of "quilt push" and "quilt pop",
now is it?

[jc: This patch is a rework based on what Linus posted to the
     list.  The changes are:

  - The original introduced four separate commands, which was
    three too many, so I merged them into one with subcommands.
    
  - Since the next thing you would want to do after telling it
    "bad" and "good" is always to bisect, this version does it
    automatically for you.

  - I think the termination condition was wrong.  The original
    version checked if the set of revisions reachable from next
    bisection but not rechable from any of the known good ones
    is empty, but if the current bisection was a bad one, this
    would not terminate, so I changed it to terminate it when
    the set becomes a singleton or empty.

  - Removed the use of shell array variable.

]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-07-30 14:03:14 -07:00

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#!/bin/sh
. git-sh-setup-script || dir "Not a git archive"
usage() {
echo >&2 'usage: git bisect [start | bad | good | next | reset]
git bisect start reset bisect state and start bisection.
git bisect bad [<rev>] mark <rev> a known-bad revision.
git bisect good [<rev>...] mark <rev>... known-good revisions.
git bisect next find next bisection to test and check it out.
git bisect reset [<branch>] finish bisection search and go back to branch.'
exit 1
}
bisect_autostart() {
test -d "$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect" || {
echo >&2 'You need to start by "git bisect start"'
if test -t 0
then
echo >&2 -n 'Do you want me to do it for you [Y/n]? '
read yesno
case "$yesno" in
[Nn]*)
exit ;;
esac
bisect_start
else
exit 1
fi
}
}
bisect_start() {
case "$#" in 0) ;; *) usage ;; esac
#
# Verify HEAD. If we were bisecting before this, reset to the
# top-of-line master first!
#
head=$(readlink $GIT_DIR/HEAD) || die "Bad HEAD - I need a symlink"
case "$head" in
refs/heads/bisect*)
git checkout master || exit
;;
refs/heads/*)
;;
*)
die "Bad HEAD - strange symlink"
;;
esac
#
# Get rid of any old bisect state
#
rm -f "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/bisect"
rm -rf "$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/"
mkdir "$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect"
}
bisect_bad() {
bisect_autostart
case "$#" in 0 | 1) ;; *) usage ;; esac
rev=$(git-rev-parse --revs-only --verify --default HEAD "$@") || exit
echo "$rev" > "$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/bad"
bisect_auto_next
}
bisect_good() {
bisect_autostart
case "$#" in
0) revs=$(git-rev-parse --verify HEAD) || exit ;;
*) revs=$(git-rev-parse --revs-only "$@") || exit ;;
esac
for rev in $revs
do
echo "$rev" >"$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/good-$rev"
done
bisect_auto_next
}
bisect_next_check() {
next_ok=no
test -f "$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/bad" &&
case "$(cd "$GIT_DIR" && echo refs/bisect/good-*)" in
refs/bisect/good-\*) ;;
*) next_ok=yes ;;
esac
case "$next_ok,$1" in
no,) false ;;
no,fail)
echo >&2 'You need to give me at least one good and one bad revisions.'
exit 1 ;;
*)
true ;;
esac
}
bisect_auto_next() {
bisect_next_check && bisect_next
}
bisect_next() {
case "$#" in 0) ;; *) usage ;; esac
bisect_autostart
bisect_next_check fail
bad=$(git-rev-parse --verify refs/bisect/bad) &&
good=$(git-rev-parse --sq --revs-only --not \
$(cd "$GIT_DIR" && ls refs/bisect/good-*)) &&
rev=$(eval "git-rev-list --bisect $good $bad") || exit
nr=$(eval "git-rev-list $rev $good" | wc -l) || exit
if [ "$nr" -le "1" ]; then
echo "$bad is first bad commit"
git-diff-tree --pretty $bad
exit 0
fi
echo "Bisecting: $nr revisions left to test after this"
echo "$rev" > "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/new-bisect"
git checkout new-bisect || exit
mv "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/new-bisect" "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/bisect" &&
ln -sf refs/heads/bisect "$GIT_DIR/HEAD"
}
bisect_reset() {
case "$#" in
0) branch=master ;;
1) test -f "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$1" || {
echo >&2 "$1 does not seem to be a valid branch"
exit 1
}
branch="$1" ;;
*)
usage ;;
esac
git checkout "$branch" &&
rm -fr "$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect"
rm -f "$GIT_DIR/refs/reads/bisect"
}
case "$#" in
0)
usage ;;
*)
cmd="$1"
shift
case "$cmd" in
start)
bisect_start "$@" ;;
bad)
bisect_bad "$@" ;;
good)
bisect_good "$@" ;;
next)
# Not sure we want "next" at the UI level anymore.
bisect_next "$@" ;;
reset)
bisect_reset "$@" ;;
*)
usage ;;
esac
esac