Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-bisect.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 698ffde7ce844e38abe2719b2f8043783742f134..fdb040b07fdfaec2a739c9a843435d4728f71632 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ on the subcommand:
  git bisect log
  git bisect run <cmd>...
 
-This command uses 'git-rev-list --bisect' option to help drive the
+This command uses 'git rev-list --bisect' option to help drive the
 binary search process to find which change introduced a bug, given an
 old "good" commit object name and a later "bad" commit object name.
 
@@ -85,10 +85,9 @@ Oh, and then after you want to reset to the original head, do a
 $ git bisect reset
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-to get back to the master branch, instead of being in one of the
-bisection branches ("git bisect start" will do that for you too,
-actually: it will reset the bisection state, and before it does that
-it checks that you're not using some old bisection branch).
+to get back to the original branch, instead of being on the bisection
+commit ("git bisect start" will do that for you too, actually: it will
+reset the bisection state).
 
 Bisect visualize
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -224,6 +223,55 @@ tree to the pristine state.  Finally the "run" script can exit with
 the status of the real test to let "git bisect run" command loop to
 know the outcome.
 
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+* Automatically bisect a broken build between v1.2 and HEAD:
++
+------------
+$ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 --      # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good
+$ git bisect run make                # "make" builds the app
+------------
+
+* Automatically bisect a broken test suite:
++
+------------
+$ cat ~/test.sh
+#!/bin/sh
+make || exit 125                   # this "skip"s broken builds
+make test                          # "make test" runs the test suite
+$ git bisect start v1.3 v1.1 --    # v1.3 is bad, v1.1 is good
+$ git bisect run ~/test.sh
+------------
++
+Here we use a "test.sh" custom script. In this script, if "make"
+fails, we "skip" the current commit.
++
+It's safer to use a custom script outside the repo to prevent
+interactions between the bisect, make and test processes and the
+script.
++
+And "make test" should "exit 0", if the test suite passes, and
+"exit 1" (for example) otherwise.
+
+* Automatically bisect a broken test case:
++
+------------
+$ cat ~/test.sh
+#!/bin/sh
+make || exit 125                     # this "skip"s broken builds
+~/check_test_case.sh                 # does the test case passes ?
+$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 --   # culprit is among the last 10
+$ git bisect run ~/test.sh
+------------
++
+Here "check_test_case.sh" should "exit 0", if the test case passes,
+and "exit 1" (for example) otherwise.
++
+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.
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -234,4 +282,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite