Re: [PATCH] improve doc heading for git-bisect

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

rwa000@gmail.com (Robert Anderson) writes:

> From 7af03a835b7311c501f2147e25f428642fc3acb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

FYI this line is not necessary, and should be removed from
git-format-patch output when pasting it to your MUA.

> From: Robert W. Anderson <rwa000@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:53:37 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] improve doc heading for git-bisect

FYI the above isn't strictly necessary: if you have 'From:' header set
correctly you can simply set subject of email, and put in body the
rest of commit message and patch only, without extra mail-like
headers.

> Improve awkward heading in git-bisect documentation.
[...]
> -Avoiding to test a commit
> -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +Changing the revision to test
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  
>  If in a middle of bisect session, you know what the bisect suggested
>  to try next is not a good one to test (e.g. the change the commit

It is, I guess, better, but is it the best heading?  What we want to
describe here is how to deal when bisect stops on commit which cannot
be tested (e.g. project does not compile).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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