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Wishlist: git help bisect should mention "stop" keyword

From
AMAndreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Date
Feb 9, 2013, 08:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20130209084403.GA14356@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de>
Hi,

the man page (git version 1.7.10.4) is a bit non-symmetric since git bisect has the start param, but when searching for "stop" (nothing more obvious than that, right?), one comes up empty --> usability issue.

The appropriate action complementary to start appears to be git bisect reset, thus its description definitely ought to include a "stop" keyword.

Description as of 1.7.10.4 is
       After a bisect session, to clean up the bisection state and
return to
       the original HEAD, issue the following command:
           $ git bisect reset
which could be changed into
       After a bisect session, to clean up the bisection state and
return to
       the original HEAD (in other words, to "stop" bisect),
       issue the following command:
           $ git bisect reset
Andreas Mohr
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  1. Andreas MohrFeb 9, 2013

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