From: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macq.eu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strange result of `git describe` while bisecting
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:21:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150612132159.GA23768@frolo.macqel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ioatvzez.fsf@igel.home>
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:17:40PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macq.eu> writes:
>
> > I am bisecting the kernel tree between v3.17 and v3.18, and 'git describe'
> > is used by the kernel compilation process. Why do I get a version
> > v3.17-rc7-1626-ga4b4a2b, that seems outside of [v3.17..v3.18] ?
>
> Because your are testing a side branch that is based on v3.17-rc7.
>
> 3.17-rc7 --- 3.17 ------- 3.18
> \ /
> \----- * -/
> ^
> You are here ------^
Thank you Andreas
Philippe
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2015-06-12 13:00 strange result of `git describe` while bisecting Philippe De Muyter
2015-06-12 13:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-06-12 13:21 ` Philippe De Muyter [this message]
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