Prepare for 1.6.1.4.

[git.git] / Documentation / git-bisect.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 3ca0d330ad06e76d73657189c5f90e0994ba4505..147ea381977a459f1fa624408cc3af3e9b9f3bd5 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ on the subcommand:
  git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
  git bisect bad [<rev>]
  git bisect good [<rev>...]
- git bisect skip [<rev>...]
+ git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...]
  git bisect reset [<branch>]
  git bisect visualize
  git bisect replay <logfile>
  git bisect log
  git bisect run <cmd>...
 
-This command uses 'git-rev-list --bisect' option to help drive the
+This command uses 'git rev-list --bisect' to help drive the
 binary search process to find which change introduced a bug, given an
 old "good" commit object name and a later "bad" commit object name.
 
@@ -98,10 +98,10 @@ During the bisection process, you can say
 $ git bisect visualize
 ------------
 
-to see the currently remaining suspects in `gitk`.  `visualize` is a bit
+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
+If 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used
 instead.  You can even give command line options such as `-p` and
 `--stat`.
 
@@ -164,6 +164,25 @@ But computing the commit to test may be slower afterwards and git may
 eventually not be able to tell the first bad among a bad and one or
 more "skip"ped commits.
 
+You can even skip a range of commits, instead of just one commit,
+using the "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" notation. For example:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6
+------------
+
+would mean that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and `v2.6` included
+can be tested.
+
+Note that if you want to also skip the first commit of a range you can
+use something like:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6
+------------
+
+and the commit pointed to by `v2.5` will be skipped too.
+
 Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -215,13 +234,13 @@ tweaks (e.g., s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a header file, or
 work around other problem this bisection is not interested in")
 applied to the revision being tested.
 
-To cope with such a situation, after the inner git-bisect finds the
+To cope with such a situation, after the inner 'git bisect' finds the
 next revision to test, with the "run" script, you can apply that tweak
 before compiling, run the real test, and after the test decides if the
 revision (possibly with the needed tweaks) passed the test, rewind the
 tree to the pristine state.  Finally the "run" script can exit with
-the status of the real test to let "git bisect run" command loop to
-know the outcome.
+the status of the real test to let the "git bisect run" command loop to
+determine the outcome.
 
 EXAMPLES
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