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diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 989e2238d..7b7bafba0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -241,7 +241,12 @@ exit(3) manual page), as the value is chopped with "& 0377". The special exit code 125 should be used when the current source code cannot be tested. If the script exits with this code, the current -revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above). +revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above). 125 was chosen +as the highest sensible value to use for this purpose, because 126 and 127 +are used by POSIX shells to signal specific error status (127 is for +command not found, 126 is for command found but not executable---these +details do not matter, as they are normal errors in the script, as far as +"bisect run" is concerned). You may often find that during a bisect session you want to have temporary modifications (e.g. s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a @@ -337,14 +342,6 @@ $ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh" This shows that you can do without a run script if you write the test on a single line. -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> - -Documentation -------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - SEE ALSO -------- link:git-bisect-lk2009.html[Fighting regressions with git bisect], |