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git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset quits bisect

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"reset" can be easily misunderstood as resetting a bisect session to its
start without finishing it. Clarify that it actually quits the bisect
session.

Reported-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Michael J Gruber 2013-02-11 09:35:04 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 7e2010537e
commit c787a45452
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@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Bisect reset
~~~~~~~~~~~~
After a bisect session, to clean up the bisection state and return to
the original HEAD, issue the following command:
the original HEAD (i.e., to quit bisecting), issue the following command:
------------------------------------------------
$ git bisect reset
@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ EXAMPLES
------------
$ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good
$ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app
$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
* Automatically bisect a test failure between origin and HEAD:
@ -291,6 +292,7 @@ $ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app
------------
$ git bisect start HEAD origin -- # HEAD is bad, origin is good
$ git bisect run make test # "make test" builds and tests
$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
* Automatically bisect a broken test case:
@ -302,6 +304,7 @@ make || exit 125 # this skips broken builds
~/check_test_case.sh # does the test case pass?
$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10
$ git bisect run ~/test.sh
$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
+
Here we use a "test.sh" custom script. In this script, if "make"
@ -351,6 +354,7 @@ use `git cherry-pick` instead of `git merge`.)
------------
$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10
$ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh"
$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
+
This shows that you can do without a run script if you write the test
@ -368,6 +372,7 @@ $ git bisect run sh -c '
rm -f tmp.$$
test $rc = 0'
$ git bisect reset # quit the bisect session
------------
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In this case, when 'git bisect run' finishes, bisect/bad will refer to a commit that