From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:46:06 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bisect: explain the rationale behind 125 X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=958bf6b768aa10fa3985886d312bd0365dee7677;p=~andy%2Fgit bisect: explain the rationale behind 125 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index c39d957c3..1701e42e4 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