Merge branch 'maint'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 1072fb87d1fe38a74dc38e2d6886acfb44d9262b..4795349c10fd91c330ddde2d8397401be09cc86b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending
 on the subcommand:
 
  git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
- git bisect bad <rev>
- git bisect good <rev>
+ git bisect bad [<rev>]
+ git bisect good [<rev>...]
+ git bisect skip [<rev>...]
  git bisect reset [<branch>]
  git bisect visualize
  git bisect replay <logfile>
@@ -134,6 +135,20 @@ $ git reset --hard HEAD~3          # try 3 revs before what
 Then compile and test the one you chose to try. After that, tell
 bisect what the result was as usual.
 
+Bisect skip
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Instead of choosing by yourself a nearby commit, you may just want git
+to do it for you using:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip                 # Current version cannot be tested
+------------
+
+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.
+
 Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -167,14 +182,18 @@ $ git bisect run my_script
 ------------
 
 Note that the "run" script (`my_script` in the above example) should
-exit with code 0 in case the current source code is good and with a
-code between 1 and 127 (included) in case the current source code is
-bad.
+exit with code 0 in case the current source code is good.  Exit with a
+code between 1 and 127 (inclusive), except 125, if the current
+source code is bad.
 
 Any other exit code will abort the automatic bisect process. (A
 program that does "exit(-1)" leaves $? = 255, see exit(3) manual page,
 the value is chopped with "& 0377".)
 
+The special exit code 125 should be used when the current source code
+cannot be tested. If the "run" script exits with this code, the current
+revision will be skipped, see `git bisect skip` above.
+
 You may often find that during bisect you want to have near-constant
 tweaks (e.g., s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a header file, or
 "revision that does not have this commit needs this patch applied to