Re: [PATCH] bisect: revise manpage

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jun 26, 2015, 13:00 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqmvzmwrng.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD1GwH1ewapraL6cms04OVk8wHdtv+TJ7=HKL0_CLGjK-g@mail.gmail.com>

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> 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.

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Matthieu Moy
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