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Subject: Re: totally confused as to what "git bisect skip" is supposed to
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Christian Couder wrote:

> 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.

  ah, excellent, thanks very much.

rday