Re: [PATCH] bisect reset: Allow resetting to any commit, not just a branch

Junio C Hamano schrieb:

I would understand it, if not agreeing that I also am often in that
situation myself", if somebody does not even care which commit he was on
before starting the bisection, but knows (or is willing to decide at that
point) which branch (or even a specific commit, while still being
detached) he wants to switch to.  And it would make sense to avoid an
extra checkout that snaps back to the pre-bisection commit before
switching to the new state he has chosen.

The situation that I'm faced quite frequently is that after I find a
regression, I cannot tell which released version did not have the
breakage. Hence, the first thing I have to do is to find a good commit.
Therefore, I jump around in ancient history until I find a good commit.
Then I start bisect. I certainly do NOT want to be warped back to this
ancient commit by 'bisect reset'.

-- Hannes