From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tilman Schmidt Subject: git bisect start silently quits on bad revision arg Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:06:30 +0100 Organization: me - organized?? Message-ID: <47B893C6.1020802@imap.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4F47C6863F13CF63FA2FD48A" To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 17 21:07:09 2008 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 1JQpn1-0006Vp-Vn for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:07:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752246AbYBQUGe (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:06:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752021AbYBQUGe (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:06:34 -0500 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:51318 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751940AbYBQUGd (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:06:33 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B085490E67 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:06:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:06:32 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: w1ILXrDvn7lMIIorAzdLp6L/Twhf3gMekq61xoJGIPBx 1203278792 Received: from [192.168.59.127] (pD9E85DD3.dip.t-dialin.net [217.232.93.211]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3290A114A0 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:06:32 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4F47C6863F13CF63FA2FD48A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just ran % git bisect start v2.6.25-rc1 v2.6.24.2 e5dd1278 on a clone of Linus' tree in order to localize a regression I am hitting, and wondered why it did nothing at all, until I realized that there is no label v2.6.24.2 in that tree. It sure would be nice if git would emit an error message in that case. ts@xenon:~/kernel/linux-2.6> git --version git version 1.5.4.7.gd8534-dirty HTH T. --=20 Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Unge=F6ffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe R=FCckseite) --------------enig4F47C6863F13CF63FA2FD48A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3rc1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHuJPGMdB4Whm86/kRAhSUAJ9GHL6s0Ya3guQWvdr8lnjdMFLjywCfcA/U +ul0j41/uBhxPrvUkbuuW5E= =MM/z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4F47C6863F13CF63FA2FD48A--