From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Loeliger Subject: Re: Real-life kernel debugging scenario Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:17:13 -0600 Message-ID: <1131560233.23046.26.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> References: A Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 09 19:24:53 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZuVb-0007ED-Ns for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:17:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030653AbVKISRQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:17:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030654AbVKISRQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:17:16 -0500 Received: from az33egw01.freescale.net ([192.88.158.102]:6536 "EHLO az33egw01.freescale.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030653AbVKISRQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:17:16 -0500 Received: from az33smr01.freescale.net (az33smr01.freescale.net [10.64.34.199]) by az33egw01.freescale.net (8.12.11/az33egw01) with ESMTP id jA9ITGCK024901; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:29:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.82.19.2] (cashmere.am.freescale.net [10.82.19.2]) by az33smr01.freescale.net (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA9INN7E010396; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:23:23 -0600 (CST) To: wa1ter@myrealbox.com In-Reply-To: A X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.ydl.1) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:40, wa1ter@myrealbox.com wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [...] > > The way to use "git bisect" couldn't be easier. > > I see that Junio just added your entire response to > Documentation/howto/ > isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt where even I could manage to find it :o) Why, thank you. :-) > The built-in variable ORIG_HEAD isn't explained anywhere AFAICT, or at > least it wasn't until today. Are there other such magic variables > which > might be useful for us to know about? Hey Junio, I'm going to call "I told you so!" on this one! :-) Ref: Message-ID: From: Jon Loeliger Subject: Now What? Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:30:37 -0700 Where in I mumbled: I feel that an explanation of all of the behind-the-scripts- in-.git communication files is needed. In particular these: FETCH_HEAD MERGE_HEAD LAST_MERGE MERGE_MSG These need to be mentioned and explained because they frequently form exactly the critical missing link or starting point after a failed fetch or merge. You know. jdl