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[PATCH 5/6] docs/bisect-lk2009: update nist report link

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 20, 2017, 20:35 UTC
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<20170420203528.ij4tfmz4g4hafwr2@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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The original NIST press release linked here is no longer available. But it was just a one-page summary of a larger planning report; we can link to the report and point people to the executive summary, which contains the same information.

Ideally we'd cite it with a DOI, but I couldn't dig one up for this particular document. I found many URLs pointing to this report, but they all end up redirecting to this one (and it looks somewhat official).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
This one and the next are in somewhat of a historical document, so maybe
it's better to leave it as-is. We _do_ build it via "make html", though.
 Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
index 716d66d43..263a853fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ author to given a talk and for publishing this paper.
 References
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-- [[[1]]] http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/n02-10.htm['Software Errors Cost U.S. Economy $59.5 Billion Annually'. Nist News Release.]
+- [[[1]]] https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/director/planning/report02-3.pdf['The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infratructure for Software Testing'.  Nist Planning Report 02-3], see Executive Summary and Chapter 8.
 - [[[2]]] http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc.html#16712['Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language'. Sun Microsystems.]
 - [[[3]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance['Software maintenance'. Wikipedia.]
 - [[[4]]] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/45195/[Junio C Hamano. 'Automated bisect success story'. Gmane.]
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