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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: "git bisect" takes exactly one bad commit and one or more good?
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 06:22:17 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1711110612290.5087@localhost.localdomain> (raw)


  more on "git bisect" ... the man page seems to make it clear that
bisection takes *precisely* one "bad" commit, and one *or more* good
commits, is that correct? seems that way, given the ellipses in the
commands below:

  git bisect start [--term-{old,good}=<term> --term-{new,bad}=<term>]
                   [--no-checkout] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
  git bisect (bad|new|<term-new>) [<rev>]
  git bisect (good|old|<term-old>) [<rev>...]

however, other parts of the man page seem less clear. just below
that, a description that bisection takes "a" good commit:

"You use it by first telling it a "bad" commit that is known to
contain the bug, and a "good" commit that is known to be before the
bug was introduced."

and a bit lower, we read "at least one bad ...", which some people
might interpret as one or more *bad* commits:

"Once you have specified at least one bad and one good commit, git
bisect selects a commit in the middle of that range of history, checks
it out, and outputs something similar to the following:"

  if the rules are exactly one bad commit and one or more good, i'll
submit a patch to reword at least the above, and possibly more if
necessary.

rday

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-11-11 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-11 11:22 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2017-11-11 12:01 ` "git bisect" takes exactly one bad commit and one or more good? Christian Couder
2017-11-11 14:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-11 15:27     ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-12 12:14       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-11 16:03     ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-11-12 21:13     ` Stephan Beyer

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