Including passing parameters to the programs, and running more complicated checks without requiring a seperate shell script. Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 147ea38..7b8cfdd 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 @@ -251,6 +251,22 @@ EXAMPLES $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good $ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app ------------ ++ +This looks for the first revision that fails to build between HEAD and +the tag 'v1.2'. + +* 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 +------------ ++ +This looks for the first revision that 'make test' fails for, assuming that +you have such a Makefile rule, and that 'make test' also builds the source code. +Note however that if the source fails to build, this will be treated as a bad +commit. This may not be what you intend, so the following examples instead +treat build failures as commits to skip. * Automatically bisect a broken test suite: + @@ -291,6 +307,15 @@ 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, simplified version: ++ +------------ +$ 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. + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> -- 1.6.2.97.g034f.dirty -- 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
