From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David J. Mellor" Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Documentation: removed some uses of the passive voice in git-bisect.txt. Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:00:13 -0700 Message-ID: <1237770017-7168-2-git-send-email-dmellor@whistlingcat.com> References: <1237770017-7168-1-git-send-email-dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 23 02:01:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LlYY2-00040C-AV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:01:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757222AbZCWBAX (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:00:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757161AbZCWBAV (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:00:21 -0400 Received: from quartz.whistlingcat.com ([67.223.228.111]:47900 "EHLO quartz.whistlingcat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756866AbZCWBAV (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:00:21 -0400 Received: from whistlingcat.com (whistlingcat.com [99.12.234.57]) by quartz.whistlingcat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D328D3833C; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandstone.whistlingcat.com (sandstone.whistlingcat.com [192.168.0.2]) by whistlingcat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A0438E7573; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sandstone.whistlingcat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0218D17A50; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:00:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.2.1 In-Reply-To: <1237770017-7168-1-git-send-email-dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor --- Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 93d9fc0..f045d1f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ the bisection state). Bisect visualize ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -To see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk', the following command -is issued during the bisection process: +To see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk', you issue the following +command during the bisection process: ------------ $ git bisect visualize @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ $ git bisect replay that-file Avoiding testing a commit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -If in the middle of a bisect session, you know that the next suggested +If, in the middle of a bisect session, you know that the next suggested revision is not a good one to test (e.g. the change the commit introduces is known not to work in your environment and you know it does not have anything to do with the bug you are chasing), you may @@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ $ git reset --hard HEAD~3 # try 3 revisions before what # was suggested ------------ -Then compile and test the chosen revision. Afterwards the revision -is marked as good or bad in the usual manner. +Then you compile and test the chosen revision. Afterwards you mark +the revision as good or bad in the usual manner. Bisect skip ~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ using the "''..''" notation. For example: $ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6 ------------ -The effect of this would be that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and -`v2.6` included could be tested. +This tells the bisect process that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and +`v2.6` included should be tested. Note that if you also want to skip the first commit of the range you would issue the command: @@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ would issue the command: $ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6 ------------ -This would cause the commits between `v2.5` included and `v2.6` included -to be skipped. +This tells the bisect process that the commits between `v2.5` included +and `v2.6` included should be skipped. Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start -- 1.6.2.1