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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	antoine.delaite@ensimag•grenoble-inp.fr,
	louis--alexandre.stuber@ensimag•grenoble-inp.fr,
	chriscool@tuxfamily•org, thomasxnguy@gmail•com,
	valentinduperray@gmail•com, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bisect: revise manpage
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:50:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqwpyqws53.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12a2e2d5e545459837b5eb2356cfc2fe4e3ef631.1435317576.git.mhagger@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:30:26 +0200")

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu> writes:

> * Remove the "Look for a fix instead of a regression in the code"
>   example, as (1) it was in the "git bisect run" section, but it
>   doesn't use that command, and (2) I think this usage is adequately
>   explained in the "Alternate terms" section.
[...]
> -* Look for a fix instead of a regression in the code
> -+
> -------------
> -$ git bisect start
> -$ git bisect new HEAD    # current commit is marked as new
> -$ git bisect old HEAD~10 # the tenth commit from now is marked as old
> -------------
> -+
> -Let's consider the last commit has a given property, and that we are looking
> -for the commit which introduced this property. For each commit the bisection
> -guide us to, we will test if the property is present. If it is we will mark
> -the commit as new with 'git bisect new', otherwise we will mark it as old.
> -At the end of the bisect session, the result will be the first new commit (e.g
> -the first one with the property).

I disagree with this one: it's in the example section, not bisect run.
The other explanations are nice, but never show the full sequence of
commands so I think an example to sum up does help.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-26 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-26 11:30 [PATCH] bisect: revise manpage Michael Haggerty
2015-06-26 12:44 ` Christian Couder
2015-06-26 13:00   ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-26 13:15     ` Christian Couder
2015-06-26 14:58       ` Michael Haggerty
2015-06-26 15:28         ` Christian Couder
2015-06-26 16:30           ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-26 17:47         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-26 20:22         ` [PATCH v10.1 3/7] Documentation/bisect: revise overall content Matthieu Moy
2015-06-26 12:50 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2015-06-26 14:55   ` [PATCH] bisect: revise manpage Michael Haggerty
2015-06-26 16:35     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-26 17:54     ` Junio C Hamano

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