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Re: [PATCH] git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset finishes bisect

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AMAndreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Date
Feb 9, 2013, 23:24 UTC
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<20130209232455.GA31027@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de>
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Hi,
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 01:53:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> >  After a bisect session, to clean up the bisection state and return to
> > -the original HEAD, issue the following command:
> > +the original HEAD (i.e., to finish bisect), issue the following command:
> 
> Makes sense.
Doesn't ;)
[aww, very sorry for this blunt reply]

The main point of my mail was to stretch the (whether actually intended) *perceived* start <-> stop symmetry (which a *user* quite likely would end up searching for in the document, and fail to find any "stop" keyword, thus not getting to the relevant reset parameter section in time). Quite likely I failed to properly word things to make that obvious, in my quickly carved mail.

To clarify intent behind these docs, I would thus propose to have the sentence improved to something quite similar to

the original HEAD (i.e., to finish - "stop" a started - bisect), issue the following command:

Thanks a ton for your immediate handling of my wishlist item!
Andreas Mohr
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Message 3 of 9 in “git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset finishes bisect”
  1. git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset finishes bisectMichael J Gruber, Feb 9, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2013
  3. Andreas MohrFeb 9, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2013
  5. Andreas MohrFeb 10, 2013
  6. Jonathan NiederFeb 10, 2013
  7. Michael J GruberFeb 11, 2013
  8. [PATCHv2] git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset quits bisectMichael J Gruber, Feb 11, 2013
  9. Jonathan NiederFeb 11, 2013

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