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diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt index afeb86c6cd..e015f5b3cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ developed and maintained during years or even tens of years by a lot of people. And as there are often many people who depend (sometimes critically) on such software, regressions are a really big problem. -One such software is the linux kernel. And if we look at the linux +One such software is the Linux kernel. And if we look at the Linux kernel, we can see that a lot of time and effort is spent to fight regressions. The release cycle start with a 2 weeks long merge window. Then the first release candidate (rc) version is tagged. And @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ regressions. And this time is more than 80% of the release cycle time. But this is not the end of the fight yet, as of course it continues after the release. -And then this is what Ingo Molnar (a well known linux kernel +And then this is what Ingo Molnar (a well known Linux kernel developer) says about his use of git bisect: _____________ @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ skip" to do the same thing. (In fact the special exit code 125 makes Or if you want more control, you can inspect the current state using for example "git bisect visualize". It will launch gitk (or "git log" -if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set) to help you find a +if the `DISPLAY` environment variable is not set) to help you find a better bisection point. Either way, if you have a string of untestable commits, it might @@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ So git bisect is unconditional goodness - and feel free to quote that _____________ Acknowledgments ----------------- +--------------- Many thanks to Junio Hamano for his help in reviewing this paper, for reviewing the patches I sent to the Git mailing list, for discussing |