From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Galbraith Subject: failure doing massive revert Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:09:06 +0200 Message-ID: <1221728946.8516.14.camel@marge.simson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 18 11:10:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KgFWj-00075h-O3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:10:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753591AbYIRJJL (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:09:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753611AbYIRJJL (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:09:11 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48788 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752989AbYIRJJK (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:09:10 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2008 09:09:07 -0000 Received: from p54B5ABC3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.178.27]) [84.181.171.195] by mail.gmx.net (mp064) with SMTP; 18 Sep 2008 11:09:07 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+TeKVwbnyT+NLD/5tQY4plpogRseeA3+I44gvKy3 ebAurzJwqukR/0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1.1 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.5600000000000001 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Greetings, For reasons I'd rather not go into, I decided to create a merge free tree to try to bisect. I did this yesterday for a smaller range, and it worked fine, and I was able to revert the reverts to re-apply. Trying to revert everything from v2.6.26..today croaked. for i in `git rev-list --no-merges v2.6.26..HEAD`; do git revert $i < /dev/null; done Got this far... Author: Mike Galbraith 2008-09-18 10:50:58 Committer: Mike Galbraith 2008-09-18 10:50:58 Parent: 6753354a5984745b0121f7853e4e7a392e25adc7 (Revert "[ARM] 5185/1: Fix spi num_chipselect for lubbock") Child: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (Local uncommitted changes, not checked in to index) Branch: master Follows: v2.6.27-rc6 Precedes: Revert "pktgen: multiqueue etc." This reverts commit e6fce5b916cd7f7f79b2b3e53ba74bbfc1d7cf8b. ...then began spewing fatal: Dirty index: cannot revert. Probably me being git-ignorant, but figured I'd mention it just in case. I started by whacking all source, followed by checkout -f master, so have no idea what git means by local changes. -Mike