Re: git-bisect problem

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:51:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Assuming I find the bad commit, how do I extract it as a patch?
> > 
> > I tried
> > 
> > git-format-patch -o ~/a 386093ef9a6c88576d8b418bf1c8616d5e410a20 git-netdev-all
> > 
> > and that chewed 10 minutes CPU time and produced no output, so I killed it.
> 
> Well, assuming it's not a merge, you'll want something like this:
> 
> git format-patch -o ~/a 386093ef9a6c88576d8b418bf1c8616d5e410a20^1..386093ef9a6c88576d8b418bf1c8616d5e410a20

That worked.

> For essentially the same output, you can do a few other variations:
> 
> git whatchanged -p 386093ef9a6c88576d8b418bf1c8616d5e410a20^1..386093ef9a6c88576d8b418bf1c8616d5e410a20
> git diff 386093ef9a6c88576d8b418bf1c8616d5e410a20^1..386093ef9a6c88576d8b418bf1c8616d5e410a20
> 
> If it's a merge that bisect terminates on, things get a bit trickier, as
> you want to figure out what went wrong in the merge to cause it, so
> you'll want to use either the syntax for specifying which merge parent
> to look at (which I forget at the moment) or, run:
> 	git rev-list --parents --max-count=1 386093ef9a6c88576d8b418bf1c8616d5e410a20
> and look at columns 2+ individually.

It did terminate on a merge.  Thats over four hours gone and, frankly, I'm
sick of it.  I just want the darned diffs so I can do something useful.

> In fact, if you want, you can re-do the merge, by creating some branches
> based off of each parent, then pulling one into the other, and seeing
> what went wrong.
> 
> Hope that helps (if not, I apologize - I should've gone to bed a while
> ago and it may have snuck through)

It does.

I'm still not having much success geting a string of patches out of it.

git format-patch -o ~/a d834a41c966c6a20368fadb59248740935e6fbae..826eeb53a6f264842200d3311d69107d2eb25f5e

Has chewed 5 minutes CPU so far and hasn't produced anything.

How do I get the IPW patches out of Jeff's tree, in order?

I guess since I found a command which actually works, I can type that
20-odd times.