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authorMichael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>2011-03-15 22:24:55 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-03-15 16:06:05 -0700
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git-bisect.txt: streamline run presentation
Streamline the presentation of "bisect run" by removing one example which does not introduce new concepts. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -274,53 +274,35 @@ $ git bisect start HEAD origin -- # HEAD is bad, origin is good
$ git bisect run make test # "make test" builds and tests
------------
-* Automatically bisect a broken test suite:
-+
-------------
-$ cat ~/test.sh
-#!/bin/sh
-make || exit 125 # this skips broken builds
-make test # "make test" runs the test suite
-$ git bisect start v1.3 v1.1 -- # v1.3 is bad, v1.1 is good
-$ git bisect run ~/test.sh
-------------
-+
-Here we use a "test.sh" custom script. In this script, if "make"
-fails, we skip the current commit.
-+
-It is safer to use a custom script outside the repository to prevent
-interactions between the bisect, make and test processes and the
-script.
-+
-"make test" should "exit 0", if the test suite passes, and
-"exit 1" otherwise.
-
* Automatically bisect a broken test case:
+
------------
$ cat ~/test.sh
#!/bin/sh
make || exit 125 # this skips broken builds
-~/check_test_case.sh # does the test case passes ?
+~/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
------------
+
-Here "check_test_case.sh" should "exit 0" if the test case passes,
+Here we use a "test.sh" custom script. In this script, if "make"
+fails, we skip the current commit.
+"check_test_case.sh" should "exit 0" if the test case passes,
and "exit 1" otherwise.
+
-It is safer if both "test.sh" and "check_test_case.sh" scripts are
+It is safer if both "test.sh" and "check_test_case.sh" are
outside the repository to prevent interactions between the bisect,
make and test processes and the scripts.
-* Automatically bisect a broken test suite:
+* Automatically bisect a broken test case:
+
------------
$ 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.
+This shows that you can do without a run script if you write the test
+on a single line.
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