Merge branch 'maint'

diff --git a/bisect.c b/bisect.c
index 041a13d093a21597c60d799c0f6943998f2d6a8a..053d1a2ab91a6c41a0fe957569ff905d12b00bee 100644 (file)
--- a/bisect.c
+++ b/bisect.c
@@ -730,6 +730,11 @@ static void handle_bad_merge_base(void)
                                "This means the bug has been fixed "
                                "between %s and [%s].\n",
                                bad_hex, bad_hex, good_hex);
+               } else if (!strcmp(term_bad, "new") && !strcmp(term_good, "old")) {
+                       fprintf(stderr, "The merge base %s is new.\n"
+                               "The property has changed "
+                               "between %s and [%s].\n",
+                               bad_hex, bad_hex, good_hex);
                } else {
                        fprintf(stderr, "The merge base %s is %s.\n"
                                "This means the first '%s' commit is "
@@ -762,11 +767,11 @@ static void handle_skipped_merge_base(const unsigned char *mb)
 }
 
 /*
- * "check_merge_bases" checks that merge bases are not "bad".
+ * "check_merge_bases" checks that merge bases are not "bad" (or "new").
  *
- * - If one is "bad", it means the user assumed something wrong
+ * - If one is "bad" (or "new"), it means the user assumed something wrong
  * and we must exit with a non 0 error code.
- * - If one is "good", that's good, we have nothing to do.
+ * - If one is "good" (or "old"), that's good, we have nothing to do.
  * - If one is "skipped", we can't know but we should warn.
  * - If we don't know, we should check it out and ask the user to test.
  */