Re: FYI, git output messages are being used by other tooling

[Andreas Schwab]

On Okt 20 2026, Theodore Tso wrote:

> A structured output that contained the result of the "git bisect
> good|bad", and the first bad commit if it has been found, would be
> certainly be a more reliable way for automated git bisection harneses
> to rely upon.  It'd be great if that was something that was in git
> 3.0.

gut rev-parse --bisect shows the bad and the good revisions.

git rev-list $(git rev-parse --bisect) | wc -l gives the number of revs
left to bisect.

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