the man page for "git bisect" makes no mention of "git bisect next", but the script git-bisect.sh does: #!/bin/sh USAGE='[help|start|bad|good|new|old|terms|skip|next|reset|visualize|replay|log|run]' ^^^^ LONG_USAGE='git bisect help print this long help message. git bisect start [--term-{old,good}=<term> --term-{new,bad}=<term>] [--no-checkout] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...] reset bisect state and start bisection. git bisect (bad|new) [<rev>] mark <rev> a known-bad revision/ a revision after change in a given property. git bisect (good|old) [<rev>...] mark <rev>... known-good revisions/ revisions before change in a given property. git bisect terms [--term-good | --term-bad] show the terms used for old and new commits (default: bad, good) git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...] mark <rev>... untestable revisions. git bisect next find next bisection to test and check it out. ... snip ... case "$#" in 0) usage ;; *) cmd="$1" get_terms shift case "$cmd" in help) git bisect -h ;; start) bisect_start "$@" ;; bad|good|new|old|"$TERM_BAD"|"$TERM_GOOD") bisect_state "$cmd" "$@" ;; skip) bisect_skip "$@" ;; next) # Not sure we want "next" at the UI level anymore. bisect_next "$@" ;; ... snip ... so, is it supported or not? should be consistent. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================