From 5413812f0800e5530036671ee55476f2771ab828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:53:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: describe how to "bisect skip" a range of
 commits

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 git-bisect.sh                |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 39034ec7d6..147ea38197 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ on the subcommand:
  git bisect start [<bad> [<good>...]] [--] [<paths>...]
  git bisect bad [<rev>]
  git bisect good [<rev>...]
- git bisect skip [<rev>...]
+ git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...]
  git bisect reset [<branch>]
  git bisect visualize
  git bisect replay <logfile>
@@ -164,6 +164,25 @@ But computing the commit to test may be slower afterwards and git may
 eventually not be able to tell the first bad among a bad and one or
 more "skip"ped commits.
 
+You can even skip a range of commits, instead of just one commit,
+using the "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" notation. For example:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6
+------------
+
+would mean that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and `v2.6` included
+can be tested.
+
+Note that if you want to also skip the first commit of a range you can
+use something like:
+
+------------
+$ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6
+------------
+
+and the commit pointed to by `v2.5` will be skipped too.
+
 Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh
index ddbdba8af1..17a35f6adc 100755
--- a/git-bisect.sh
+++ b/git-bisect.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git bisect bad [<rev>]
         mark <rev> a known-bad revision.
 git bisect good [<rev>...]
         mark <rev>... known-good revisions.
-git bisect skip [<rev>...]
+git bisect skip [(<rev>|<range>)...]
         mark <rev>... untestable revisions.
 git bisect next
         find next bisection to test and check it out.