bisect everything, from initial commit

git, git-bisect

Solution

git bisect start
git bisect good
git bisect bad `git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD`
git bisect run ./test.sh

Or incorporate these commands into an alias, e.g.:

bisect-all = !git bisect start && git bisect bad &&\
        git bisect good `git rev-list --max-parents=0 --first-parent HEAD`

And then just use `git bisect-all`, `git bisect run ./test.sh`.

Creating an alias to handle the whole process is slightly more complicated:

quick-bisect = !sh -c 'git bisect start && git bisect bad &&\
        git bisect good `git rev-list --max-parents=0 --first-parent HEAD` &&\
        git bisect run "$@" && git bisect reset' -

But with that, you can simply run `git quick-bisect ./test.sh`.

If you're using a version of git older than 1.7.4.2, you won't have the `--max-parents` option, so will need to use something like `git rev-list HEAD | tail -n 1` instead.

Problem

Say I have a small project with a very fast test script, and I just want to bisect everything, from the initial commit to the curret commit. How can I do that? To clarify, I don't want to waste time identifying a commit that is good and a commit that is bad, so I'm looking for a quick way to mark the latest commit as bad, and the initial commit as good.

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