From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Borntraeger Subject: Re: current git kernel has strange problems during bisect Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:20:03 +0100 Message-ID: <200901111620.03345.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> References: <200901111602.53082.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> <200901111607.59054.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 11 16:22:39 2009 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 1LM295-0002AB-Ta for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:22:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752345AbZAKPVM (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:21:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751804AbZAKPVK (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:21:10 -0500 Received: from mtagate5.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.138]:42449 "EHLO mtagate5.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750905AbZAKPVJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:21:09 -0500 Received: from d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.38.185]) by mtagate5.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0BFK4X7234154; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:20:04 GMT Received: from d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.213]) by d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id n0BFK4uB3084340; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:20:04 GMT Received: from d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n0BFK3h2032536; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:20:04 GMT Received: from sig-9-145-110-244.uk.ibm.com (sig-9-145-110-244.uk.ibm.com [9.145.110.244]) by d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n0BFK2U9032531 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:20:03 GMT User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 schrieben Sie: > Hi, > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 schrieb Christian Borntraeger: > > > 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. > > > > In fact, retesting with a clean repository shows, that there are only btrfs > > files - nothing else. > > > > Linus did you pull a broken btrfs repository? > > I guess it is a subtree merge. So no, nothing went wrong > > Use "git bisect skip" to skip over those. I think we should really avoid merging subtrees to the linux kernel. It makes bisecting a real PITA. Furthermore, It is unlikely, but what if the problem is part of the 581 changesets from btrfs? Christian