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From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:30:55 +1000
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On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> For some bisection tasks, checking out the commit at each stage of th=
e bisection process is unecessary or undesirable.
>
> This series adds support for a --no-checkout[=3D<ref>] option to git-=
bisect.
>
> If specified, this option causes git-bisect to update the specified r=
eference at each stage of the bisection process instead of checking out=
 the commit at that point. If <ref> is not specified, HEAD is assumed.
>
> One application of this option is to find, within a partially damaged=
 repository, the earliest commit such that the graph of commits, trees =
and blobs reachable from the parents of that commit is completely reach=
able.
>
> For example:
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0git bisect start HEAD <known-good-commit> [ <damaged-or-=
missing-commit> ... ]

Sorry, this example should include --no-checkout.

    git bisect start --no-checkout HEAD <known-good-commit> [
<damaged-or-missing-commit> ... ]

Example in documentation is correct.

jon.