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* [PATCH 8/9] Bisect: add "bisect skip" to the documentation.
@ 2007-10-22  5:49 Christian Couder
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From: Christian Couder @ 2007-10-22  5:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Junio Hamano, Shawn O. Pearce, Johannes Schindelin; +Cc: git

Also fix "bisect bad" and "bisect good" short usage description.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-bisect.txt |   19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 1072fb8..785f381 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending
 on the subcommand:
 
  git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
- git bisect bad <rev>
- git bisect good <rev>
+ git bisect bad [<rev>]
+ git bisect good [<rev>...]
+ git bisect skip [<rev>...]
  git bisect reset [<branch>]
  git bisect visualize
  git bisect replay <logfile>
@@ -134,6 +135,20 @@ $ git reset --hard HEAD~3		# try 3 revs before what
 Then compile and test the one you chose to try. After that, tell
 bisect what the result was as usual.
 
+Bisect skip
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Instead of choosing by yourself a nearby commit, you may just want git
+to do it for you using:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip                 # Current version cannot be tested
+------------
+
+But computing the commit to test may be slower afterwards and git may
+eventually not be able to tell the first bad among a bad and one or
+more "skip"ped commits.
+
 Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-- 
1.5.3.3.136.g591d1-dirty

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