# [PATCH] bisect: add first-parent option to documentation

2 messages from 2020-08-22 to 2020-08-23. Participants: Aaron Lipman, Christian Couder.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/54092

## Aaron Lipman, 2020-08-22 20:32

Subject: [PATCH] bisect: add first-parent option to documentation
Message-ID: <20200822203203.66116-1-alipman88@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20200822203203.66116-1-alipman88%40gmail.com

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Ensure that the [--first-parent] option is listed in the output of
git bisect -h

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lipman <alipman88@gmail.com>
---
This patch updates a piece of documentation I missed when submitting the
first-parent option a few weeks ago.

 git-bisect.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh
index c7580e51a0..c28e35b0fa 100755
--- a/git-bisect.sh
+++ b/git-bisect.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ USAGE='[help|start|bad|good|new|old|terms|skip|next|reset|visualize|view|replay|
 LONG_USAGE='git bisect help
 	print this long help message.
 git bisect start [--term-{old,good}=<term> --term-{new,bad}=<term>]
-		 [--no-checkout] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...]
+		 [--no-checkout] [--first-parent] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...]
 	reset bisect state and start bisection.
 git bisect (bad|new) [<rev>]
 	mark <rev> a known-bad revision/
-- 
2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)


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## Christian Couder, 2020-08-23 06:50

Subject: Re: [PATCH] bisect: add first-parent option to documentation
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD123OpGJOMOeY0Feub8o5H3eF_DSLtYTp_Gu8fWXUS1rA@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAP8UFD123OpGJOMOeY0Feub8o5H3eF_DSLtYTp_Gu8fWXUS1rA%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20200822203203.66116-1-alipman88@gmail.com>

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On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 1:06 AM Aaron Lipman <alipman88@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ensure that the [--first-parent] option is listed in the output of
> git bisect -h
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lipman <alipman88@gmail.com>
> ---
> This patch updates a piece of documentation I missed when submitting the
> first-parent option a few weeks ago.

Thanks!

>  git-bisect.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh
> index c7580e51a0..c28e35b0fa 100755
> --- a/git-bisect.sh
> +++ b/git-bisect.sh
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ USAGE='[help|start|bad|good|new|old|terms|skip|next|reset|visualize|view|replay|
>  LONG_USAGE='git bisect help
>         print this long help message.
>  git bisect start [--term-{old,good}=<term> --term-{new,bad}=<term>]
> -                [--no-checkout] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...]
> +                [--no-checkout] [--first-parent] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...]

This looks good to me as this matches what's in "Documentation/git-bisect.txt".

Best,
Christian.









> 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)
>

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