From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Hering Subject: Re: git-bisect broken in 1.2.4 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 09:33:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20060502073304.GA26111@suse.de> References: <20060501181020.GA21263@suse.de> <20060502070155.GA861@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> <7vpsiwopkv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Uwe Zeisberger X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 02 09:33:22 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 1FapNi-0008BS-70 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 09:33:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932372AbWEBHdH (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 03:33:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932419AbWEBHdH (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 03:33:07 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:31176 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932372AbWEBHdG (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 03:33:06 -0400 Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F72F1D8D2; Tue, 2 May 2006 09:33:05 +0200 (CEST) To: Junio C Hamano , pasky@suse.cz Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vpsiwopkv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, May 02, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Uwe Zeisberger writes: > > > Olaf Hering wrote: > >> Did SuSE just pick up a bad version of git, 1.2.4? > >> git-bisect doesnt work correctly in the kernel sources, .git/HEAD doesnt > >> contain the commit id anymore, but 'ref: refs/heads/bisect' > >> > >> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO depends on the id. > > Probably you should update to at least linux-v2.6.15-g117a93d. The > > script to determine the localversion[1] depends on .git/HEAD being a > > symlink. > > > > Since > > > > git-1.1.4-g2fabd21 > > > > .git/HEAD isn't a symlink any more (per default at least). > > Ouch. Although what Uwe says is all correct, we should not say > "don't try kernel older than 2615-117a". That makes bisect > rather useless. > > > You can rebuild git with USE_SYMLINK_HEAD if you really want the old > > behaviour. > > That probably is a sane thing to do. Ok, thanks for the patch. Petr, can you update our git package in time?