From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: [PATCH 8/9] Bisect: add "bisect skip" to the documentation. Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:49:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20071022074923.362e4648.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio Hamano , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 22 07:42:35 2007 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 1Ijq3e-0007hy-8h for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:42:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751995AbXJVFmV (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:42:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751988AbXJVFmV (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:42:21 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.27]:36532 "EHLO smtp1-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751957AbXJVFmU (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:42:20 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C271AB2D9; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:42:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.boubyland (gre92-7-82-243-130-161.fbx.proxad.net [82.243.130.161]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id B431F1AB2D6; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:42:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Also fix "bisect bad" and "bisect good" short usage description. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder --- 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 [ [...]] [--] [...] - git bisect bad - git bisect good + git bisect bad [] + git bisect good [...] + git bisect skip [...] git bisect reset [] git bisect visualize git bisect replay @@ -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