From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve doc heading for git-bisect Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080607070637.79B17C7C0E@rwavmlap> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: rwa000@gmail.com (Robert Anderson) X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 07 11:23:12 2008 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 1K4udj-0006AP-FQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:23:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753978AbYFGJWT (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 05:22:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754452AbYFGJWS (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 05:22:18 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:44072 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753869AbYFGJWS (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 05:22:18 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so916626fgg.17 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:22:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; bh=SbZjNVP8Nf5D15osiVLN8PUgghAyd4HtTRGt69wT1zY=; b=eapMVJy5ZuNantpezbOlr2YxvxN2FZ64No7gehHT1WrIUZOrWd11hiZP/zo+EyUjyU TxUORMEm/qQUfaq950wFks5zLKJ+J49O04Z0Q9poFEEHAicETF9uWbOfZuS3Xtxf5bfy nMvMTiRF/kpoO30gbaA87RFYkUeHeFdyiCL48= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; b=mQVT+HaRjj4OS3u1DVzne3TRaVXVhHnEhOlmpJq0577Z2FypvmjufgoJv/5cxxdrtZ YqGokxjVrOkDZCg9nLPSw8TCD22yLKl2coVGnQAyeRqplkpzjKKRsQVzLGURcB7NxIHW 3TpmnFUqxHJFjNnrPRl+esF0bKgCwpqPiFoGs= Received: by 10.78.194.8 with SMTP id r8mr470203huf.88.1212830536123; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ( [83.8.218.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 11sm6711271hug.62.2008.06.07.02.22.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m579MAM4031728; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 11:22:10 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id m579M8RS031724; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 11:22:08 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <20080607070637.79B17C7C0E@rwavmlap> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: rwa000@gmail.com (Robert Anderson) writes: > From 7af03a835b7311c501f2147e25f428642fc3acb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 FYI this line is not necessary, and should be removed from git-format-patch output when pasting it to your MUA. > From: Robert W. Anderson > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:53:37 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] improve doc heading for git-bisect FYI the above isn't strictly necessary: if you have 'From:' header set correctly you can simply set subject of email, and put in body the rest of commit message and patch only, without extra mail-like headers. > Improve awkward heading in git-bisect documentation. [...] > -Avoiding to test a commit > -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > +Changing the revision to test > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > If in a middle of bisect session, you know what the bisect suggested > to try next is not a good one to test (e.g. the change the commit It is, I guess, better, but is it the best heading? What we want to describe here is how to deal when bisect stops on commit which cannot be tested (e.g. project does not compile). -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git