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| author |  John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> | 2009-03-05 12:36:14 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-03-05 15:03:18 -0800 |
| commit | fad5c96756fe9524fcb4e6ab7468368c2fb20fa0 (patch) | |
| tree | 708136f6383d7aa613ae547d0baab3951691c709 /Documentation | |
| parent | Draft release notes: Carry forward the warning for behaviour changes (diff) | |
| download | tgif-fad5c96756fe9524fcb4e6ab7468368c2fb20fa0.tar.xz | |
Documentation - More examples for git bisect
Including passing parameters to the programs, and running more
complicated checks without requiring a seperate shell script.
Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 147ea38197..e65c1cae8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ If you have a script that can tell if the current source code is good or bad, you can automatically bisect using: ------------ -$ git bisect run my_script +$ git bisect run my_script arguments ------------ Note that the "run" script (`my_script` in the above example) should @@ -252,6 +252,13 @@ $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good $ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app ------------ +* Automatically bisect a test failure between origin and HEAD: ++ +------------ +$ git bisect start HEAD origin -- # HEAD is bad, origin is good +$ git bisect run make test # "make test" builds and tests +------------ + * Automatically bisect a broken test suite: + ------------ @@ -291,6 +298,15 @@ It's safer if both "test.sh" and "check_test_case.sh" scripts are outside the repo to prevent interactions between the bisect, make and test processes and the scripts. +* Automatically bisect a broken test suite: ++ +------------ +$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10 +$ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh" +------------ ++ +Does the same as the previous example, but on a single line. + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |