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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-12-03 03:51:10 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-12-03 03:51:10 +0000
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@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ on the subcommand:</p></div>
git bisect start [&lt;bad&gt; [&lt;good&gt;...]] [--] [&lt;paths&gt;...]
git bisect bad [&lt;rev&gt;]
git bisect good [&lt;rev&gt;...]
-git bisect skip [&lt;rev&gt;...]
+git bisect skip [(&lt;rev&gt;|&lt;range&gt;)...]
git bisect reset [&lt;branch&gt;]
git bisect visualize
git bisect replay &lt;logfile&gt;
@@ -442,6 +442,21 @@ to do it for you using:</p></div>
<div class="para"><p>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.</p></div>
+<div class="para"><p>You can even skip a range of commits, instead of just one commit,
+using the "<em>&lt;commit1&gt;</em>..<em>&lt;commit2&gt;</em>" notation. For example:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content">
+<pre><tt>$ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<div class="para"><p>would mean that no commit between <tt>v2.5</tt> excluded and <tt>v2.6</tt> included
+can be tested.</p></div>
+<div class="para"><p>Note that if you want to also skip the first commit of a range you can
+use something like:</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content">
+<pre><tt>$ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<div class="para"><p>and the commit pointed to by <tt>v2.5</tt> will be skipped too.</p></div>
<h3 id="_cutting_down_bisection_by_giving_more_parameters_to_bisect_start">Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
<div class="para"><p>You can further cut down the number of trials if you know what part of
the tree is involved in the problem you are tracking down, by giving
@@ -559,7 +574,7 @@ test processes and the scripts.</p></div>
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