From patchwork Fri Dec 15 20:32:42 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Junio C Hamano X-Patchwork-Id: 13494874 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (pb-smtp1.pobox.com [64.147.108.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8E97447762 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="NblPRsAS" Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242981BD36A; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:32:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=XsUxuSbFD8r7KwCnbR60MyBkR 6F3NzoekMny3BPgAsA=; b=NblPRsASF4TiYWj7vTLBJzdQwloGlu0AlUdTesW5J abb8RUJTSm92CV6s8dikBpMs+1uMCP7dS1bOyZ8eooU8/uKpKYCsp6aShUXaRb+4 s/KE91A8PgZLqGJnjmY2OriJfJHh6vkdRAu67tRaRGLyO+nqa/x/JE5PDjoEWIJn zA= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C03F1BD369; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:32:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.193.51]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8237F1BD368; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:32:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Patrick Steinhardt Subject: [PATCH 2/5] git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:32:42 -0800 Message-ID: <20231215203245.3622299-3-gitster@pobox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0-76-g1a87c842ec In-Reply-To: <20231215203245.3622299-1-gitster@pobox.com> References: <20231215203245.3622299-1-gitster@pobox.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1F728E66-9B89-11EE-A043-78DCEB2EC81B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com The description of "git bisect --no-checkout" called BISECT_HEAD a "special ref", but there is nothing special about it. It merely is yet another pseudoref. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 191b4a42b6..aa02e46224 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ OPTIONS --no-checkout:: + Do not checkout the new working tree at each iteration of the bisection -process. Instead just update a special reference named `BISECT_HEAD` to make +process. Instead just update the reference named `BISECT_HEAD` to make it point to the commit that should be tested. + This option may be useful when the test you would perform in each step