# [PATCH 2/2 v2] Documentation: describe how to "bisect skip" a range of commits

2 messages from 2008-12-02 to 2008-12-03. Participants: Christian Couder, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16555

## Christian Couder, 2008-12-02 13:53

Subject: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Documentation: describe how to "bisect skip" a range of commits
Message-ID: <20081202145351.24d1a1fb.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081202145351.24d1a1fb.chriscool%40tuxfamily.org

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Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-bisect.txt |   21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 git-bisect.sh                |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 39034ec..147ea38 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ on the subcommand:
  git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
  git bisect bad [<rev>]
  git bisect good [<rev>...]
- git bisect skip [<rev>...]
+ git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...]
  git bisect reset [<branch>]
  git bisect visualize
  git bisect replay <logfile>
@@ -164,6 +164,25 @@ But computing the commit to test may be slower afterwards and git may
 eventually not be able to tell the first bad among a bad and one or
 more "skip"ped commits.
 
+You can even skip a range of commits, instead of just one commit,
+using the "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" notation. For example:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6
+------------
+
+would mean that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and `v2.6` included
+can be tested.
+
+Note that if you want to also skip the first commit of a range you can
+use something like:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6
+------------
+
+and the commit pointed to by `v2.5` will be skipped too.
+
 Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh
index ddbdba8..17a35f6 100755
--- a/git-bisect.sh
+++ b/git-bisect.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git bisect bad [<rev>]
         mark <rev> a known-bad revision.
 git bisect good [<rev>...]
         mark <rev>... known-good revisions.
-git bisect skip [<rev>...]
+git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...]
         mark <rev>... untestable revisions.
 git bisect next
         find next bisection to test and check it out.
-- 
1.6.0.4.838.g4ea49

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## Junio C Hamano, 2008-12-03 02:17

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Documentation: describe how to "bisect skip" a range of commits
Message-ID: <7vfxl6j92t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vfxl6j92t.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <20081202145351.24d1a1fb.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

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Thanks.

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