diff options
| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2011-03-20 19:42:22 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2011-03-20 19:42:22 +0000 |
| commit | d2c978f6be36b38127b58af46e28e3ae590b2d3b (patch) | |
| tree | 88d8b45014f2b361e18b1aa71f48160ad7f5dc3f /git-bisect.txt | |
| parent | fa28cb14513978502ac466090afe34c3479fc90b (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-d2c978f6be36b38127b58af46e28e3ae590b2d3b.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.4.1-343-ga91df
Diffstat (limited to 'git-bisect.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | git-bisect.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/git-bisect.txt b/git-bisect.txt index a1e47d679..4b4b096ce 100644 --- a/git-bisect.txt +++ b/git-bisect.txt @@ -241,7 +241,12 @@ exit(3) manual page), as the value is chopped with "& 0377". The special exit code 125 should be used when the current source code cannot be tested. If the script exits with this code, the current -revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above). +revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above). 125 was chosen +as the highest sensible value to use for this purpose, because 126 and 127 +are used by POSIX shells to signal specific error status (127 is for +command not found, 126 is for command found but not executable---these +details do not matter, as they are normal errors in the script, as far as +"bisect run" is concerned). You may often find that during a bisect session you want to have temporary modifications (e.g. s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a |