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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-12-06 22:40:16 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-12-06 22:40:16 -0800
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* master: (334 commits) bash: update 'git commit' completion Git 1.6.5.5 Fix diff -B/--dirstat miscounting of newly added contents reset: improve worktree safety valves Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam archive: clarify description of path parameter rerere: don't segfault on failure to open rr-cache Prepare for 1.6.5.5 gitweb: Describe (possible) gitweb.js minification in gitweb/README Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam Fix crasher on encountering SHA1-like non-note in notes tree t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-' t4201: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1 Git 1.6.5.4 Unconditionally set man.base.url.for.relative.links Documentation/Makefile: allow man.base.url.for.relative.link to be set from Make Git 1.6.6-rc1 git-pull.sh: Fix call to git-merge for new command format Prepare for 1.6.5.4 merge: do not add standard message when message is given with -m option ... Conflicts: Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt Makefile builtin-ls-remote.c builtin-push.c transport-helper.c Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index bf66116d61..1f57aed337 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -243,12 +243,23 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes` are listed
on the command line as '<commit>'.
-ifdef::git-rev-list[]
+ifndef::git-rev-list[]
+--bisect::
+
+ Pretend as if the bad bisection ref `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/bad`
+ was listed and as if it was followed by `--not` and the good
+ bisection refs `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/good-*` on the command
+ line.
+endif::git-rev-list[]
+
--stdin::
In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command
- line, read them from the standard input.
+ line, read them from the standard input. If a '--' separator is
+ seen, stop reading commits and start reading paths to limit the
+ result.
+ifdef::git-rev-list[]
--quiet::
Don't print anything to standard output. This form
@@ -536,7 +547,11 @@ Bisection Helpers
--bisect::
Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway between
-the included and excluded commits. Thus, if
+included and excluded commits. Note that the bad bisection ref
+`$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/bad` is added to the included commits (if it
+exists) and the good bisection refs `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/good-*` are
+added to the excluded commits (if they exist). Thus, supposing there
+are no refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/`, if
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ git rev-list --bisect foo ^bar ^baz
@@ -556,22 +571,24 @@ one.
--bisect-vars::
-This calculates the same as `--bisect`, but outputs text ready
-to be eval'ed by the shell. These lines will assign the name of
-the midpoint revision to the variable `bisect_rev`, and the
-expected number of commits to be tested after `bisect_rev` is
-tested to `bisect_nr`, the expected number of commits to be
-tested if `bisect_rev` turns out to be good to `bisect_good`,
-the expected number of commits to be tested if `bisect_rev`
-turns out to be bad to `bisect_bad`, and the number of commits
-we are bisecting right now to `bisect_all`.
+This calculates the same as `--bisect`, except that refs in
+`$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/` are not used, and except that this outputs
+text ready to be eval'ed by the shell. These lines will assign the
+name of the midpoint revision to the variable `bisect_rev`, and the
+expected number of commits to be tested after `bisect_rev` is tested
+to `bisect_nr`, the expected number of commits to be tested if
+`bisect_rev` turns out to be good to `bisect_good`, the expected
+number of commits to be tested if `bisect_rev` turns out to be bad to
+`bisect_bad`, and the number of commits we are bisecting right now to
+`bisect_all`.
--bisect-all::
This outputs all the commit objects between the included and excluded
commits, ordered by their distance to the included and excluded
-commits. The farthest from them is displayed first. (This is the only
-one displayed by `--bisect`.)
+commits. Refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/` are not used. The farthest
+from them is displayed first. (This is the only one displayed by
+`--bisect`.)
+
This is useful because it makes it easy to choose a good commit to
test when you want to avoid to test some of them for some reason (they