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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: Problem with git bisect in git-1.6.3.3
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:39:31 +0200
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Chris Clayton schrieb:
> git bisect start
> # good: [07a2039b8eb0af4ff464efd3dfd95de5c02648c6] Linux 2.6.30
> git bisect good 07a2039b8eb0af4ff464efd3dfd95de5c02648c6
> # bad: [8e4a718ff38d8539938ec3421935904c27e00c39] Linux 2.6.31-rc2
...
> but, from Makefile, it appears the last "bad" has placed me at a
> change earlier than 2.6.30:
> 
> [chris:~/kernel/linux-2.6]$ head Makefile
> VERSION = 2
> PATCHLEVEL = 6
> SUBLEVEL = 30
> EXTRAVERSION = -rc6
...
> I'm not an experienced git user, so it may be that I have made an
> error or false assumption.

Not an error, but false assumptions:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99967/focus=99977

Just continue bisecting. If you can't test the version that bisect warps
you to because the feature where the bug happens is not present, mark that
revision as "good".

-- Hannes