{"thread":{"id":"47157","subject":"proper patch prefix for tweaking both git-bisect.sh and git-bisect.txt?","startedAt":"2017-11-10T16:11:42Z","lastAt":"2017-11-10T16:11:42Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Robert P. J. Day"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"332188","messageId":"alpine.LFD.2.21.1711101056440.5836@DESKTOP-1GPMCEJ","threadId":"47157","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"proper patch prefix for tweaking both git-bisect.sh and git-bisect.txt?","fromName":"Robert P. J. Day","fromEmail":"rpjday@crashcourse.ca","sentAt":"2017-11-10T16:11:14Z","receivedAt":"2017-11-10T16:11:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rpjday@crashcourse.ca","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/226084077?v=4"},"body":"\n  digging through both git-bisect.sh and git-bisect.txt, and it seems\npretty clear they're both a bit out of date WRT documenting the newer\nalternatives \"old\"/\"new\" as opposed to the older \"good\"/\"bad\" terms,\nand a few other things.\n\n  first, trivially, neither the script nor the man page mention \"view\"\nas an alternative to \"visualize\", but that's easy to fix. however,\nmost of the inconsistency involves that good/bad/old/new stuff.\n\n  the man page reads (in part):\n\n  git bisect (bad|new|<term-new>) [<rev>]\n  git bisect (good|old|<term-old>) [<rev>...]\n\nwhich i assume should actually read:\n\n  git bisect (bad|new|<term-bad>|<term-new>) [<rev>]\n  git bisect (good|old|<term-good>|<term-old>) [<rev>...]\n\nunless there's some implicit assumption that isn't mentioned there.\n\n  also from the man page, i'm guessing that:\n\n  git bisect terms [--term-good | --term-bad]\n\nmight need to say:\n\n  git bisect terms [--term-good | --term-bad | --term-new | --term-old]\n\nand so on, and so on (again, unless the generality of those terms is\nunderstood).\n\n  so given that all of that is, technically, documentation (even the\nusage message in the script), if one submits a patch to change both\nfiles appropriately, what is the subject line prefix to use?\n\n  anyway, maybe i'll do this in bite-size pieces to keep it\nmanageable. my first patch to the code base ... whoo hoo!\n\nrday\n\n-- \n\n========================================================================\nRobert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA\n                        http://crashcourse.ca\n\nTwitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday\nLinkedIn:                               http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday\n========================================================================\n"}]}