From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: Re: [PATCH] bisect: revise manpage Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:28:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <12a2e2d5e545459837b5eb2356cfc2fe4e3ef631.1435317576.git.mhagger@alum.mit.edu> <558D68A7.6010608@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Matthieu Moy , Junio C Hamano , Antoine Delaite , louis--alexandre stuber , Christian Couder , Thomas Nguy , Valentin Duperray , git To: Michael Haggerty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 26 17:28:37 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8VYQ-0006OC-SK for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:28:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752119AbbFZP2a (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:28:30 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com ([209.85.212.171]:32831 "EHLO mail-wi0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751802AbbFZP22 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:28:28 -0400 Received: by wiwl6 with SMTP id l6so48323928wiw.0 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:28:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=F2wrG32YKo0y5Fha2dvqcao/0DKusuCCkbu1qoiJ/B4=; b=U2HrTBfWGlKvaQZQSbKPRGoSbPxo3ohVAdr/2ppadLAanuVcYMWeQXhv9ktQspvYXl Z9X7qrnsBYjkkVvWp11ZG9N2YKgQNmrzjOMEkn7OxeoITnqreMFHJVwdusFVD4xbEsXI 2myuYklPdd7UXX5AByz+GHYGlXytTInelBMmBjFKu6B4WXaVXA/Ra1eyF14hGaz9Z9te 6bK8cElNpXNHX+CiGovVQ00A1cmXrhj24KLQaSZQs7pmHyaEJCpxN+nHq2YftOJs5OXU /e0E15kuJqZtIZwXbls9srNfjkNfuMF7pGdrqIK8dZbE2K8QcWVQYTr3SrzaO6TnKxG2 L3Lg== X-Received: by 10.194.95.132 with SMTP id dk4mr4231456wjb.88.1435332507755; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.221.229 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:28:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <558D68A7.6010608@alum.mit.edu> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote: > On 06/26/2015 03:15 PM, Christian Couder wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Matthieu Moy >> wrote: >>> Christian Couder writes: >>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>>>> +Eventually there will be no more revisions left to bisect, and the >>>>> +command will print out a description of the first bad commit, and also >>>>> +create a reference called `refs/bisect/bad` that points at that >>>>> +commit. >>>> >>>> This could be understood as meaning that `refs/bisect/bad` is created >>>> only at the end of the bisection. >>>> >>>>> -Eventually there will be no more revisions left to bisect, and you >>>>> -will have been left with the first bad kernel revision in "refs/bisect/bad". >>>> >>>> The original looks better to me in this regard. >>> >>> I'm changing it to: >>> >>> Eventually there will be no more revisions left to bisect, and the >>> command will print out a description of the first bad commit. The >>> reference `refs/bisect/bad` created by bisect will point at that >>> commit. > > I agree that is better. > >> For the last sentence I'd suggest: >> >> The reference called `refs/bisect/bad` will point at that commit. > > Or maybe > > The reference `refs/bisect/bad` will be left pointing at that commit. Yeah ok.