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Documentation: remove some uses of the passive voice in git-bisect.txt
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Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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David J. Mellor authored and Junio C Hamano committed Mar 23, 2009
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Bisect reset
~~~~~~~~~~~~

To return to the original head after a bisect session, you issue the
To return to the original head after a bisect session, issue the
following command:

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Bisect visualize
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk', the following command
is issued during the bisection process:
To see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk', issue the following
command during the bisection process:

------------
$ git bisect visualize
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Bisect log and bisect replay
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After having marked revisions as good or bad, you issue the following
After having marked revisions as good or bad, issue the following
command to show what has been done so far:

------------
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Avoiding testing a commit
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If in the middle of a bisect session, you know that the next suggested
If, in the middle of a bisect session, you know that the next suggested
revision is not a good one to test (e.g. the change the commit
introduces is known not to work in your environment and you know it
does not have anything to do with the bug you are chasing), you may
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# was suggested
------------

Then compile and test the chosen revision. Afterwards the revision
is marked as good or bad in the usual manner.
Then you compile and test the chosen revision. Afterwards you mark
the revision as good or bad in the usual manner.

Bisect skip
~~~~~~~~~~~~
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$ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6
------------

The effect of this would be that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and
`v2.6` included could be tested.
This tells the bisect process that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and
`v2.6` included should be tested.

Note that if you also want to skip the first commit of the range you
would issue the command:
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$ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6
------------

This would cause the commits between `v2.5` included and `v2.6` included
to be skipped.
This tells the bisect process that the commits between `v2.5` included
and `v2.6` included should be skipped.


Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
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