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From: "Reece Dunn" <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
To: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: git bisect start on a tag revision fails
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:01:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f4fd2640802100301y436bda41kcca1b1eb8ec0ea10@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

When hunting bugs with the wine source code
(git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git), both Dan Kegel and I have
found the following berhaviour with git bisect:

$ git checkout wine-0.9.54
HEAD is now at 8f954cc... Release 0.9.54.
$ git bisect start
fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref
Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic ref

Whereas doing:

$ git checkout master
$ git bisect start

then:

$ git checkout wine-0.9.54
$ git bisect good

works.

Is it possible to have bisect support non-symbolic refs?

- Reece

             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-10 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-10 11:01 Reece Dunn [this message]
2008-02-10 13:59 ` [PATCH] bisect: allow starting with a detached HEAD Johannes Schindelin

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