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From:   Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: totally confused as to what "git bisect skip" is supposed to do
To:     "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> p.s. i suspect i should RTFS to see exactly how git bisect does its
> work.

You might want to read https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect-lk2009.html
before reading the source code.