From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 23:59:22 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'ad/bisect-terms' X-Git-Tag: v2.12.0-rc0~48 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/e94577039564ace7b7fb8186d170ea7350f55e4c?ds=inline;hp=-c Merge branch 'ad/bisect-terms' Documentation fix. * ad/bisect-terms: Documentation/bisect: improve on (bad|new) and (good|bad) --- e94577039564ace7b7fb8186d170ea7350f55e4c diff --combined Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 2bb9a577a2,b35218adf0..bdd915a66b --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@@ -18,8 -18,8 +18,8 @@@ on the subcommand git bisect start [--term-{old,good}= --term-{new,bad}=] [--no-checkout] [ [...]] [--] [...] - git bisect (bad|new) [] - git bisect (good|old) [...] + git bisect (bad|new|) [] + git bisect (good|old|) [...] git bisect terms [--term-good | --term-bad] git bisect skip [(|)...] git bisect reset [] @@@ -205,7 -205,7 +205,7 @@@ $ git bisect visualiz `view` may also be used as a synonym for `visualize`. -If the 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used +If the `DISPLAY` environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used instead. You can also give command-line options such as `-p` and `--stat`. @@@ -256,7 -256,7 +256,7 @@@ Then compile and test the chosen revisi the revision as good or bad in the usual manner. Bisect skip -~~~~~~~~~~~~ +~~~~~~~~~~~ Instead of choosing a nearby commit by yourself, you can ask Git to do it for you by issuing the command: @@@ -335,7 -335,7 +335,7 @@@ cannot be tested. If the script exits w revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above). 125 was chosen as the highest sensible value to use for this purpose, because 126 and 127 are used by POSIX shells to signal specific error status (127 is for -command not found, 126 is for command found but not executable---these +command not found, 126 is for command found but not executable--these details do not matter, as they are normal errors in the script, as far as `bisect run` is concerned). @@@ -358,7 -358,7 +358,7 @@@ OPTION --no-checkout:: + Do not checkout the new working tree at each iteration of the bisection -process. Instead just update a special reference named 'BISECT_HEAD' to make +process. Instead just update a special reference named `BISECT_HEAD` to make it point to the commit that should be tested. + This option may be useful when the test you would perform in each step