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Bisect: add "bisect skip" to the documentation.
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Also fix "bisect bad" and "bisect good" short usage description.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Christian Couder authored and Junio C Hamano committed Oct 27, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending
on the subcommand:

git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
git bisect bad <rev>
git bisect good <rev>
git bisect bad [<rev>]
git bisect good [<rev>...]
git bisect skip [<rev>...]
git bisect reset [<branch>]
git bisect visualize
git bisect replay <logfile>
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Then compile and test the one you chose to try. After that, tell
bisect what the result was as usual.

Bisect skip
~~~~~~~~~~~~

Instead of choosing by yourself a nearby commit, you may just want git
to do it for you using:

------------
$ git bisect skip # Current version cannot be tested
------------

But computing the commit to test may be slower afterwards and git may
eventually not be able to tell the first bad among a bad and one or
more "skip"ped commits.

Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
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