From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: git bisect goes wild? Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:28:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20090224192809.GG22108@duck.suse.cz> References: <20090224184414.GE22108@duck.suse.cz> <20090224191002.GF22108@duck.suse.cz> <87prh7abqz.fsf@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Peter Harris , git@vger.kernel.org To: Teemu Likonen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 24 20:31:05 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 1Lc2zf-0002fo-EB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:31:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753592AbZBXT2P (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:28:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753402AbZBXT2O (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:28:14 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50050 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751557AbZBXT2O (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:28:14 -0500 Received: from Relay1.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 mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2431945657; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:28:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from duck.suse.cz (duck.suse.cz [10.20.1.74]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.suse.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9714862807F; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:28:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by duck.suse.cz (Postfix, from userid 10005) id 486081F1E2F; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:28:10 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87prh7abqz.fsf@iki.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue 24-02-09 21:14:12, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-02-24 20:10 (+0100), Jan Kara wrote: > > > Ho, hum, right. But if I do: > > git describe 9ec76fbf7d6da3e98070a7059699d0ca019b0c9b > > I get v2.6.23-rc3-215-g9ec76fb which is a bit strange for bisecting > > between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24. Also the kernel gets named 2.6.23-rc3 and > > kernel config options get also to some pre 2.6.23 state. That's what > > is confusing me. It seems like the kernel checked out is some old one. > > I'm not a git expert so it might be fine but it just seems really > > strange. > > Maybe this explanation helps: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99967/focus=99977 OK, thanks for the pointer. I'll trust that the result will be sensible :). Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR