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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Subject: current git kernel has strange problems during bisect
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:02:53 +0100
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doing a 
git bisect start
git bisect good a3a798c
git bisect bad v2.6.29-rc1

results in a repository without several files, e.g Makefile!
git describe also fails.

Any ideas how to fix this problem to continue with my bisect?

Christian