On a second look here are a few nit picks. First the patch title could be: "Documentation: More examples for git bisect" instead of: "Documentation - More examples for git bisect" as it would be more consistent with other patches. Le jeudi 5 mars 2009, John Tapsell a écrit : > Including passing parameters to the programs, and running more > complicated checks without requiring a seperate shell script. > > Signed-off-by: John Tapsell > --- > Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 18 +++++++++++++++++- > 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt > index 147ea38..e65c1ca 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt > @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ If you have a script that can tell if the current > source code is good or bad, you can automatically bisect using: > > ------------ > -$ git bisect run my_script > +$ git bisect run my_script arguments > ------------ > > Note that the "run" script (`my_script` in the above example) should > @@ -252,6 +252,13 @@ $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- # HEAD is bad, > v1.2 is good $ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app > ------------ > > +* Automatically bisect a test failure between origin and HEAD: > ++ > +------------ > +$ git bisect start HEAD origin -- # HEAD is bad, origin is good > +$ git bisect run make test # "make test" builds and tests > +------------ Perhaps we should add that the above may not work well if there are some commits that don't build. And that it is fixed in the example below this one. > * Automatically bisect a broken test suite: > + > ------------ > @@ -291,6 +298,15 @@ 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. > > +* Automatically bisect a broken test suite: The title of the previous example is * Automatically bisect a broken test case: so if it is the same, then it should perhaps have the same title or perhaps: * Automatically bisect a broken test case simplified: or something like that. > ++ > +------------ > +$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10 > +$ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh" > +------------ > ++ > +Does the same as the previous example, but on a single line. > + 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