From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: [PATCH] rev-list documentation: add "--bisect-all". Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:05:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20071017080511.21ef421a.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , Frank Lichtenheld , Ralf Wildenhues X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 17 07:58:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ii1vI-00024u-9X for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:58:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752947AbXJQF6M (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:58:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761896AbXJQF6L (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:58:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.27]:58564 "EHLO smtp1-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759995AbXJQF6K (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:58:10 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA5C1AB2CE; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:58:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.boubyland (gre92-7-82-243-130-161.fbx.proxad.net [82.243.130.161]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B54F1AB2C1; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:58:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: Christian Couder --- Documentation/git-rev-list.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) This is a resend with some typos fixed. Thanks to Ralf Wildenhues. diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index 7cd0e89..4852804 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 useful 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` had been used alone. + -- Commit Ordering -- 1.5.3.4.206.g58ba4