Index: tools/bisect-builds.py |
diff --git a/tools/bisect-builds.py b/tools/bisect-builds.py |
index e601e4792094263d96eb11369110f7e2e882ce69..fd6810cd2cb5626c345b7983b433300c7fd7168b 100755 |
--- a/tools/bisect-builds.py |
+++ b/tools/bisect-builds.py |
@@ -587,7 +587,11 @@ def GetChromiumRevision(url): |
def main(): |
usage = ('%prog [options] [-- chromium-options]\n' |
- 'Perform binary search on the snapshot builds.\n' |
+ 'Perform binary search on the snapshot builds to find a minimal ' |
+ 'range of revisions where a behavior change happened. The ' |
+ 'behaviors are described as "good" and "bad". ' |
+ 'It is NOT assumed that the behavior of the later revision is ' |
+ 'the bad one.\n' |
'\n' |
'Tip: add "-- --no-first-run" to bypass the first run prompts.') |
parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=usage) |
@@ -603,9 +607,12 @@ def main(): |
'Chrome builds (internal only) instead of ' + |
'Chromium archives.') |
parser.add_option('-b', '--bad', type = 'str', |
- help = 'The bad revision to bisect to. Default is HEAD.') |
+ help = 'A bad revision to start bisection. ' + |
+ 'May be earlier or later than the good revision. ' + |
+ 'Default is HEAD.') |
parser.add_option('-g', '--good', type = 'str', |
- help = 'The last known good revision to bisect from. ' + |
+ help = 'A good revision to start bisection. ' + |
+ 'May be earlier or later than the bad revision. ' + |
'Default is 0.') |
parser.add_option('-p', '--profile', '--user-data-dir', type = 'str', |
help = 'Profile to use; this will not reset every run. ' + |