Documentation - More examples for git bisect

Including passing parameters to the programs, and running more
complicated checks without requiring a seperate shell script.

Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 147ea381977a459f1fa624408cc3af3e9b9f3bd5..e65c1cae8b3da4efae7571628c1586cbb56151ae 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -212,7 +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
@@ -252,6 +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:
 +
 ------------
@@ -291,6 +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
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 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>