{"thread":{"id":"10281","subject":"[PATCH 7/7] Bisect: add \"bisect dunno\" to the documentation.","startedAt":"2007-10-14T12:30:11Z","lastAt":"2007-10-14T12:30:11Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Christian Couder"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":7},"messages":[{"id":"55710","messageId":"20071014143011.7ab31184.chriscool@tuxfamily.org","threadId":"10281","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH 7/7] Bisect: add \"bisect dunno\" to the documentation.","fromName":"Christian Couder","fromEmail":"chriscool@tuxfamily.org","sentAt":"2007-10-14T12:30:11Z","receivedAt":"2007-10-14T12:30:11Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"christian.couder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/208954?v=4"},"body":"Also fix \"bisect bad\" and \"bisect good\" short usage description.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>\n---\n Documentation/git-bisect.txt |   19 +++++++++++++++++--\n 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt\nindex 1072fb8..2be2284 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt\n@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending\n on the subcommand:\n \n  git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]\n- git bisect bad <rev>\n- git bisect good <rev>\n+ git bisect bad [<rev>]\n+ git bisect good [<rev>...]\n+ git bisect dunno [<rev>...]\n  git bisect reset [<branch>]\n  git bisect visualize\n  git bisect replay <logfile>\n@@ -134,6 +135,20 @@ $ git reset --hard HEAD~3\t\t# try 3 revs before what\n Then compile and test the one you chose to try. After that, tell\n bisect what the result was as usual.\n \n+Bisect dunno\n+~~~~~~~~~~~~\n+\n+Instead of choosing by yourself a nearby commit, you may just want git\n+to do it for you using:\n+\n+------------\n+$ git bisect dunno                 # Current version cannot be tested\n+------------\n+\n+But computing the commit to test may be slower afterwards and git may\n+eventually not be able to tell the first bad among a bad and one or\n+more dunno commits.\n+\n Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start\n ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n \n-- \n1.5.3.4.213.g68ad5\n"}]}