From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-bisect not working correctly in the kvm.git repository?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:19:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gfsjjp$o42$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811171131330.18283@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, walt wrote:
>> I'm trying to find a bug introduced somewhere between kvm-69
>> and kvm-70, so of course I want to git-bisect down to it.
>>
>> The weirdness is that when I give git-bisect the good and
>> bad tags, almost everything in my working directory just
>> disappears, leaving only the qemu subdirectory behind.
> ...
> If you merge stuff from another project that isn't a full repository, then
> you are merging commits that simply don't _have_ the full tree of your
> repo...
Okay, that's clearly what's happening to me. The kvm.git repo
contains hundred of commits just like that. How would you deal
with the same situation? Is git-bisect skip the easiest way?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-17 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-17 17:27 git-bisect not working correctly in the kvm.git repository? walt
2008-11-17 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-17 20:19 ` walt [this message]
2008-11-17 20:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-18 7:13 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-11-18 20:38 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-17 19:47 ` Christian Couder
2008-11-17 22:11 ` walt
2008-11-18 5:56 ` Christian Couder
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