From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: git-bisect problem Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:51:46 -0800 Message-ID: <20060213015146.26e6c09d.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060213002502.5c23122c.akpm@osdl.org> <7virrj1v44.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060213013205.4ba47836.akpm@osdl.org> <20060213093938.GC11053@mythryan2.michonline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: junkio@cox.net, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 13 10:52:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8aNy-0002ck-6t for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:52:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751688AbWBMJwn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:52:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751689AbWBMJwn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:52:43 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:58312 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751684AbWBMJwm (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:52:42 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1D9qZDZ021918 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:52:36 -0800 Received: from bix (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with SMTP id k1D9qZ7H011952; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:52:35 -0800 To: Ryan Anderson In-Reply-To: <20060213093938.GC11053@mythryan2.michonline.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.68__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ryan Anderson wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:32:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > > > As humans, we can tell that it is not very plausible that the > > > EXTRAVERSION change caused whatever breakage you are chasing, > > > but sorry, from your log, I think bisect is doing the right > > > thing. > > > > I don't think humans are well-suited to using git. > > > > My current theory is that I was bisecting Linus's tree all along. > > > > What is the correct way in which to switch to git-netdev-all in preparation > > for performing the bisection? > > First, use "git branch" to show you what branches exist, the * will mark > the current one. > > Then "git checkout $branch" to switch to one that exists, or "git > checkout -b $newbranch $sourcebranch" to create a new branch starting > from $sourcebranch (which can also be a random commit/tag/etc). > Yeah, am (ret)trying that. 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.