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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-02-13 14:44:51 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-02-13 14:44:51 -0800 |
commit | 1e73351fefbe7b414e8937e891e31d18c4c46fa1 (patch) | |
tree | 92d951e297ee63e1720712efc4c46a7dbe5a1441 | |
parent | 8d792dcd5aa8a412670bd12f07cdc8290e3b9a68 (diff) | |
parent | 841dbd40a350b6bde402ca36a56c815f13f20480 (diff) | |
download | git-1e73351fefbe7b414e8937e891e31d18c4c46fa1.tar.gz |
Merge branch 'jc/bisect-doc' into maint-2.43
Doc update.
* jc/bisect-doc:
bisect: document command line arguments for "bisect start"
bisect: document "terms" subcommand more fully
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index aa02e46224..a0e75a6239 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ DESCRIPTION The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending on the subcommand: - git bisect start [--term-(new|bad)=<term-new> --term-(old|good)=<term-old>] + git bisect start [--term-(bad|new)=<term-new> --term-(good|old)=<term-old>] [--no-checkout] [--first-parent] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...] git bisect (bad|new|<term-new>) [<rev>] git bisect (good|old|<term-old>) [<rev>...] - git bisect terms [--term-good | --term-bad] + git bisect terms [--term-(good|old) | --term-(bad|new)] git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...] git bisect reset [<commit>] git bisect (visualize|view) @@ -165,8 +165,10 @@ To get a reminder of the currently used terms, use git bisect terms ------------------------------------------------ -You can get just the old (respectively new) term with `git bisect terms ---term-old` or `git bisect terms --term-good`. +You can get just the old term with `git bisect terms --term-old` +or `git bisect terms --term-good`; `git bisect terms --term-new` +and `git bisect terms --term-bad` can be used to learn how to call +the commits more recent than the sought change. If you would like to use your own terms instead of "bad"/"good" or "new"/"old", you can choose any names you like (except existing bisect |