diff-options.txt: document the new "--dirstat" option

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 785f38142316299a817afe49f854a3114f03ffa1..96585ae8d9455654b63e83d61e7c34a7aeb94291 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -92,7 +92,16 @@ During the bisection process, you can say
 $ git bisect visualize
 ------------
 
-to see the currently remaining suspects in `gitk`.
+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
+instead.  You can even give command line options such as `-p` and
+`--stat`.
+
+------------
+$ git bisect view --stat
+------------
 
 Bisect log and bisect replay
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -182,14 +191,18 @@ $ 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
@@ -214,4 +227,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite