I think a better title for this patch would be something like: bisect: update BISECT_HEAD, rather than HEAD, when using --no-checkout But anyway in my opinion the patch series would be better if this patch was squashed into the previous patches. On Wednesday 03 August 2011 00:16:02 Jon Seymour wrote: > This function modifies git-bisect so that the --no-checkout option > uses BISECT_HEAD rather than HEAD to record the current bisection > head. s/This function/This patch/ > The intent is to reduce the confusion that uses of --no-checkout s/uses/users/ > may experience when using the --no-checkout option since the bisection > process will no longer introduce spurious differences between the > HEAD reference and the working tree and index. > > Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 8 ++++---- > bisect.c | 2 +- > builtin/bisect--helper.c | 2 +- > git-bisect.sh | 17 +++++++++++++---- > t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- > 5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt > index 2014894..a9b217b 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt > @@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ OPTIONS > ------- > --no-checkout:: > + > -This option is used to specify that 'git bisect' should not modify the > working -tree or index on each iteration of the bisection process but > should -update HEAD instead. > +This option is used to specify that 'git bisect' should not checkout the > +new working tree at each iteration of the bisection process but should > +instead update BISECT_HEAD. I would say something like: Do not checkout the new working tree at each iteration of the bisection process. Instead just update a special reference named 'BISECT_HEAD' to make it point to the commit that should be tested. > + > This option is useful in circumstances in which checkout is either not > possible (because of a damaged respository) or is otherwise not required. Thanks, Christian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html