[PATCH] doc/git-bisect: clarify `git bisect run` syntax
From: cousteau via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2023-10-22 20:02:53
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: Javier Mora <redacted>
The description of the `git bisect run` command syntax at the beginning
of the manpage is `git bisect run <cmd>...`, which isn't quite clear
about what `<cmd>` is or what the `...` mean; one could think that it is
the whole (quoted) command line with all arguments in a single string,
or that it supports multiple commands, or that it doesn't accept
commands with arguments at all.
Change to `git bisect run <cmd> [<arg>...]` to clarify the syntax.
Signed-off-by: Javier Mora <redacted>
---
doc/git-bisect: clarify git bisect run syntax
I saw someone in IRC wondering about the syntax for git bisect run for a
command with arguments, and found that its short description at the
beginning of the manpage is not very clear (although it gets clarified
later when it is properly described). It describes the syntax as git
bisect run <cmd>... which is a bit confusing; it should say git bisect
run <cmd> [<arg>...], otherwise it somehow looks like you have to "enter
one or more commands", and that each command is a single argument.
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1602%2Fcousteaulecommandant%2Fman-git-bisect-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1602/cousteaulecommandant/man-git-bisect-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1602
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 7872dba3aef..19bbed49238 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ on the subcommand: git bisect (visualize|view) git bisect replay <logfile> git bisect log - git bisect run <cmd>... + git bisect run <cmd> [<arg>...] git bisect help This command uses a binary search algorithm to find which commit in
base-commit: ceadf0f3cf51550166a387ec8508bb55e7883057 -- gitgitgadget