Before this patch, there were no "git bisect run" example. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Junio wrote: > As if there were improper examples, and as if this patch adds a proper > one. Drop "proper" and add sign-off perhaps? ;-) > s/install//; let's not set a bad example of installing first and then > testing. All the above should be fixed in this amended patch. Thanks. diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 698ffde..f9b564c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -224,6 +224,32 @@ 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 case using a custom script: ++ +------------ +echo "#"\!"/bin/sh" > ~/test.sh +echo "make || exit 125" >> ~/test.sh +echo "~/check_test_case.sh" >> ~/test.sh +chmod u+x ~/test.sh +$ git bisect start v1.3 v1.1 -- # v1.3 is bad, v1.1 is good +$ git bisect run ~/test.sh +------------ ++ +Here we first create the "test.sh" custom script. In this script, if +"make" fails, we "skip" the current commit. +And "check_test_case.sh" should "exit 0", if the test case passes, and +"exit 1" (for example) otherwise. + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> -- 1.5.5.1.126.g9ca01 -- 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
