From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rogan Dawes Subject: Re: git bisect not accepting -git kernels Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:11:12 +0200 Message-ID: <469CF830.8040601@dawes.za.net> References: <469CE836.6010508@arcom.com> <469CF2E6.1020104@lsrfire.ath.cx> <469CF52D.10407@arcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Amit Walambe X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 17 19:14:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IAqcs-0000EC-0o for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:14:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932312AbXGQRNt convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:13:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765944AbXGQRNs (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:13:48 -0400 Received: from sumo.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.29]:48636 "EHLO sumo.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765934AbXGQRNr (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:13:47 -0400 Received: from spunkymail-a19.g.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-207.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.207]) by sumo.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E39185E13 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.201.100] (dsl-146-26-37.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.26.37]) by spunkymail-a19.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC52711B6D; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:11:43 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git In-Reply-To: <469CF52D.10407@arcom.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Amit Walambe wrote: > Thanks a ton everyone for all the replies. > Here is the current status : >=20 > Ren=E9 Scharfe wrote: >> Amit Walambe schrieb: >>> Hi! >>> I was trying to do a git bisect on 2.6.22-git6 and 2.6.22-git8. For >>> which I get following error : >>> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect good v2.6.22-git6 >>> Bad rev input: v2.6.22-git6 >> >> The -git snapshots are made automatically by kernel.org, and their n= ame >> is not included in the git repository. You could create tags for th= em >> like this: >> >> git tag v2.6.22-git6 8f41958bdd577731f7411c9605cfaa9db6766809 >> git tag v2.6.22-git8 a5fcaa210626a79465321e344c91a6a7dc3881fa >> >> ... and afterwards you can use those revision names with bisect (or >> other git commands). I've got the commit IDs (i.e. those mysterious= 40 >> hex digits above) from the first line of the changelogs; their URLs = are: >> >> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.22-git6= =2Elog >> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.22-git8= =2Elog > I found the commit ids in following file as well : > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.22-gi= t6.id > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.22-gi= t8.id >=20 > But telling good/bad points to git bisect still fails, whether I pass= =20 > the commit-id or the tags I created with commands given by Ren=E9 : >=20 > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect good=20 > 8f41958bdd577731f7411c9605cfaa9db6766809 > cat: .git/BISECT_NAMES: No such file or directory > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git tag v2.6.22-git6=20 > 8f41958bdd577731f7411c9605cfaa9db6766809 > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git tag v2.6.22-git8=20 > a5fcaa210626a79465321e344c91a6a7dc3881fa > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect good v2.6.22-git6 > cat: .git/BISECT_NAMES: No such file or directory > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # > root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect bad v2.6.22-git8 > cat: .git/BISECT_NAMES: No such file or directory >=20 > Thanks and Regards, You need to start off by saying $ git bisect start to set up the necessary infrastructure. Rogan