* [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
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1.5.3.3.136.g591d1-dirty
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