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bisect: document "terms" subcommand more fully

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The documentation for "git bisect terms", although it did not hide
any information, was a bit incomplete and forced readers to fill in
the blanks to get the complete picture.

Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2024-02-07 13:44:35 -08:00
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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ on the subcommand:
[--no-checkout] [--first-parent] [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
git bisect (bad|new|<term-new>) [<rev>]
git bisect (good|old|<term-old>) [<rev>...]
git bisect terms [--term-good | --term-bad]
git bisect terms [--term-(good|old) | --term-(bad|new)]
git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...]
git bisect reset [<commit>]
git bisect (visualize|view)
@ -165,8 +165,10 @@ To get a reminder of the currently used terms, use
git bisect terms
------------------------------------------------
You can get just the old (respectively new) term with `git bisect terms
--term-old` or `git bisect terms --term-good`.
You can get just the old term with `git bisect terms --term-old`
or `git bisect terms --term-good`; `git bisect terms --term-new`
and `git bisect terms --term-bad` can be used to learn how to call
the commits more recent than the sought change.
If you would like to use your own terms instead of "bad"/"good" or
"new"/"old", you can choose any names you like (except existing bisect