From: Michael Haggerty Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:58:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] bisect: revise manpage Message-ID: <558D68A7.6010608@alum.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: On 06/26/2015 03:15 PM, Christian Couder wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Matthieu Moy > wrote: >> Christian Couder writes: >> >>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> +Eventually there will be no more revisions left to bisect, and the >>>> +command will print out a description of the first bad commit, and also >>>> +create a reference called `refs/bisect/bad` that points at that >>>> +commit. >>> >>> This could be understood as meaning that `refs/bisect/bad` is created >>> only at the end of the bisection. >>> >>>> -Eventually there will be no more revisions left to bisect, and you >>>> -will have been left with the first bad kernel revision in "refs/bisect/bad". >>> >>> The original looks better to me in this regard. >> >> I'm changing it to: >> >> Eventually there will be no more revisions left to bisect, and the >> command will print out a description of the first bad commit. The >> reference `refs/bisect/bad` created by bisect will point at that >> commit. I agree that is better. > For the last sentence I'd suggest: > > The reference called `refs/bisect/bad` will point at that commit. Or maybe The reference `refs/bisect/bad` will be left pointing at that commit. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu