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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
To: Junio Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rev-list documentation: add "--bisect-all".
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:59:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071016055905.55c1d280.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-rev-list.txt |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

	Le lundi 15 octobre 2007, Frank Lichtenheld a écrit :
	>
	> --bisect-all is still missing a Documentation/ patch.

	Thanks for catching that. 
	Here is a patch.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 7cd0e89..f6dd0c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	     [ \--pretty | \--header ]
 	     [ \--bisect ]
 	     [ \--bisect-vars ]
+	     [ \--bisect-all ]
 	     [ \--merge ]
 	     [ \--reverse ]
 	     [ \--walk-reflogs ]
@@ -354,6 +355,21 @@ the expected number of commits to be tested if `bisect_rev`
 turns out to be bad to `bisect_bad`, and the number of commits
 we are bisecting right now to `bisect_all`.
 
+--bisect-all::
+
+This outputs all the commit objects between the included and excluded
+commits, ordered by their distance to the included and excluded
+commits. The farthest from them is displayed first. (This is the only
+one displayed by `--bisect`.)
+
+This is usefull because it makes it easy to choose a good commit to
+test when you want to avoid to test some of them for some reason (they
+may not compile for example).
+
+This option can be used along with `--bisect-vars`, in this case,
+after all the sorted commit objects, there will be the same text as if
+`--bisect-vars` has been used alone.
+
 --
 
 Commit Ordering
-- 
1.5.3.4.213.g68ad5

             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-16  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16  3:59 Christian Couder [this message]
2007-10-16 10:42 ` [PATCH] rev-list documentation: add "--bisect-all" Ralf Wildenhues
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-17  6:05 Christian Couder

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