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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | git-bisect.sh | 12 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 96585ae8d9..698ffde7ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending on the subcommand: + git bisect help git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...] git bisect bad [<rev>] git bisect good [<rev>...] @@ -29,6 +30,12 @@ This command uses 'git-rev-list --bisect' option to help drive the binary search process to find which change introduced a bug, given an old "good" commit object name and a later "bad" commit object name. +Getting help +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Use "git bisect" to get a short usage description, and "git bisect +help" or "git bisect -h" to get a long usage description. + Basic bisect commands: start, bad, good ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh index 48fb92d612..a1343f61db 100755 --- a/git-bisect.sh +++ b/git-bisect.sh @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ #!/bin/sh -USAGE='[start|bad|good|skip|next|reset|visualize|replay|log|run]' -LONG_USAGE='git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...] +USAGE='[help|start|bad|good|skip|next|reset|visualize|replay|log|run]' +LONG_USAGE='git bisect help + print this long help message. +git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<pathspec>...] reset bisect state and start bisection. git bisect bad [<rev>] mark <rev> a known-bad revision. @@ -20,7 +22,9 @@ git bisect replay <logfile> git bisect log show bisect log. git bisect run <cmd>... - use <cmd>... to automatically bisect.' + use <cmd>... to automatically bisect. + +Please use "git help bisect" to get the full man page.' OPTIONS_SPEC= . git-sh-setup @@ -465,6 +469,8 @@ case "$#" in cmd="$1" shift case "$cmd" in + help) + git bisect -h ;; start) bisect_start "$@" ;; bad|good|skip) |