The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending
on the subcommand:
+ git bisect help
git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
git bisect bad [<rev>]
git bisect good [<rev>...]
binary search process to find which change introduced a bug, given an
old "good" commit object name and a later "bad" commit object name.
+Getting help
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Use "git bisect" to get a short usage description, and "git bisect
+help" or "git bisect -h" to get a long usage description.
+
Basic bisect commands: start, bad, good
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
$ git bisect visualize
------------
-to see the currently remaining suspects in `gitk`.
+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
+instead. You can even give command line options such as `-p` and
+`--stat`.
+
+------------
+$ git bisect view --stat
+------------
Bisect log and bisect replay
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
------------
Note that the "run" script (`my_script` in the above example) should
-exit with code 0 in case the current source code is good and with a
-code between 1 and 127 (included) in case the current source code is
-bad.
+exit with code 0 in case the current source code is good. Exit with a
+code between 1 and 127 (inclusive), except 125, if the current
+source code is bad.
Any other exit code will abort the automatic bisect process. (A
program that does "exit(-1)" leaves $? = 255, see exit(3) manual page,
the value is chopped with "& 0377".)
+The special exit code 125 should be used when the current source code
+cannot be tested. If the "run" script exits with this code, the current
+revision will be skipped, see `git bisect skip` above.
+
You may often find that during bisect you want to have near-constant
tweaks (e.g., s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a header file, or
"revision that does not have this commit needs this patch applied to
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite