[PATCH] git-bisect.txt: example for bisecting with hotfix

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

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Mar 14, 2011, 13:47 UTC

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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/52601/focus=1112779

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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Maybe this doc fix would do. Just tag the hotfix and tell people to cherry-pick it
like this. I don't think "git bisect --with-fix=hotfix" would be much simpler.
(culling kernel list from cc - don't apply this to the wrong tree :)

 Documentation/git-bisect.txt |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index c39d957..25acf26 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -322,6 +322,17 @@ $ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh"
 +
 Does the same as the previous example, but on a single line.
 
+* Bisect with compatibility hotfix:
++
+------------
+$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 --   # culprit is among the last 10
+$ git bisect run sh -c "git cherry-pick -n hotfix || exit 125; make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh"
+------------
++
+Does the same as the previous example, but applies an additional patch
+before building. This is useful when your build or test environment changed so
+that older revisions may need a fix which newer ones have already.
+
 Author
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 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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