Merge branch 'el/blame-date'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 3ca0d330ad06e76d73657189c5f90e0994ba4505..e65c1cae8b3da4efae7571628c1586cbb56151ae 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ on the subcommand:
  git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
  git bisect bad [<rev>]
  git bisect good [<rev>...]
- git bisect skip [<rev>...]
+ git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...]
  git bisect reset [<branch>]
  git bisect visualize
  git bisect replay <logfile>
  git bisect log
  git bisect run <cmd>...
 
-This command uses 'git-rev-list --bisect' option to help drive the
+This command uses 'git rev-list --bisect' to help drive the
 binary search process to find which change introduced a bug, given an
 old "good" commit object name and a later "bad" commit object name.
 
@@ -98,10 +98,10 @@ During the bisection process, you can say
 $ git bisect visualize
 ------------
 
-to see the currently remaining suspects in `gitk`.  `visualize` is a bit
+to see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk'.  `visualize` is a bit
 too long to type and `view` is provided as a synonym.
 
-If `DISPLAY` environment variable is not set, `git log` is used
+If 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used
 instead.  You can even give command line options such as `-p` and
 `--stat`.
 
@@ -164,6 +164,25 @@ 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.
 
+You can even skip a range of commits, instead of just one commit,
+using the "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" notation. For example:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6
+------------
+
+would mean that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and `v2.6` included
+can be tested.
+
+Note that if you want to also skip the first commit of a range you can
+use something like:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6
+------------
+
+and the commit pointed to by `v2.5` will be skipped too.
+
 Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -193,7 +212,7 @@ If you have a script that can tell if the current source code is good
 or bad, you can automatically bisect using:
 
 ------------
-$ git bisect run my_script
+$ git bisect run my_script arguments
 ------------
 
 Note that the "run" script (`my_script` in the above example) should
@@ -215,13 +234,13 @@ tweaks (e.g., s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a header file, or
 work around other problem this bisection is not interested in")
 applied to the revision being tested.
 
-To cope with such a situation, after the inner git-bisect finds the
+To cope with such a situation, after the inner 'git bisect' finds the
 next revision to test, with the "run" script, you can apply that tweak
 before compiling, run the real test, and after the test decides if the
 revision (possibly with the needed tweaks) passed the test, rewind the
 tree to the pristine state.  Finally the "run" script can exit with
-the status of the real test to let "git bisect run" command loop to
-know the outcome.
+the status of the real test to let the "git bisect run" command loop to
+determine the outcome.
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
@@ -233,6 +252,13 @@ $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 --      # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good
 $ git bisect run make                # "make" builds the app
 ------------
 
+* Automatically bisect a test failure between origin and HEAD:
++
+------------
+$ git bisect start HEAD origin --    # HEAD is bad, origin is good
+$ git bisect run make test           # "make test" builds and tests
+------------
+
 * Automatically bisect a broken test suite:
 +
 ------------
@@ -272,6 +298,15 @@ It's safer if both "test.sh" and "check_test_case.sh" scripts are
 outside the repo to prevent interactions between the bisect, make and
 test processes and the scripts.
 
+* Automatically bisect a broken test suite:
++
+------------
+$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 --   # culprit is among the last 10
+$ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh"
+------------
++
+Does the same as the previous example, but on a single line.
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>