Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b6610d5 2/4: emacs-lisp/package.el: Refactor pre-execute prompt

[Artur Malabarba]

> Speaking of which, I don't understand how git bisect can work properly with
> a history that is full of branching and remerging. The whole concept seems
> to require a linear history. What am I missing?
>
> – Harald

git bisect searches the history of a single branch, and the history of
each branch is linear.

When you create other branches that doesn't affect the history of the
parent branch. And when you merge another branch onto the current one,
all it does is add a bunch of commits to it (which is linear).