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diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index e4f46bc..f986c5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Bisect reset ~~~~~~~~~~~~ After a bisect session, to clean up the bisection state and return to -the original HEAD, issue the following command: +the original HEAD (i.e., to quit bisecting), issue the following command: ------------------------------------------------ $ git bisect reset @@ -169,14 +169,14 @@ the revision as good or bad in the usual manner. Bisect skip ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Instead of choosing by yourself a nearby commit, you can ask git +Instead of choosing by yourself a nearby commit, you can ask Git to do it for you by issuing the command: ------------ $ git bisect skip # Current version cannot be tested ------------ -But git may eventually be unable to tell the first bad commit among +But Git may eventually be unable to tell the first bad commit among a bad commit and one or more skipped commits. You can even skip a range of commits, instead of just one commit, @@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ EXAMPLES ------------ $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good $ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app +$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session ------------ * Automatically bisect a test failure between origin and HEAD: @@ -291,6 +292,7 @@ $ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app ------------ $ git bisect start HEAD origin -- # HEAD is bad, origin is good $ git bisect run make test # "make test" builds and tests +$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session ------------ * Automatically bisect a broken test case: @@ -302,6 +304,7 @@ make || exit 125 # this skips broken builds ~/check_test_case.sh # does the test case pass? $ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10 $ git bisect run ~/test.sh +$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session ------------ + Here we use a "test.sh" custom script. In this script, if "make" @@ -351,6 +354,7 @@ use `git cherry-pick` instead of `git merge`.) ------------ $ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10 $ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh" +$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session ------------ + This shows that you can do without a run script if you write the test @@ -368,6 +372,7 @@ $ git bisect run sh -c ' rm -f tmp.$$ test $rc = 0' +$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session ------------ + In this case, when 'git bisect run' finishes, bisect/bad will refer to a commit that |