From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: help: bisect single file from repos Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:08:10 +0100 Message-ID: <4B1D1A5A.9060004@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <4B1CFC4C.6090406@bfs.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: wharms@bfs.de X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 07 16:09:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NHfDh-000672-3e for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:09:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935245AbZLGPJX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:09:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932706AbZLGPJW (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:09:22 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:46997 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935242AbZLGPJV (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:09:21 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E79C5553; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:09:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:09:27 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=qSDrevTOumM01aIPdxq/rrECpHE=; b=nVvf+qW3RCISMRChYfHpElMe6wHmMXjgv/0E390vcDTonJFFDWVLXDIr7OAC+hmTGeQpJqXHR4VN9Z/6Enew+rfzabwIIhDsExcIBBewFAkp1i/v6BHTXZGzwxn87Mizqfv/o3QQC/x60eqNwQIHLbk0+nA0WBdA0JduY8WldZk= X-Sasl-enc: XmdOYEmzGNunPtIPvPO3tUEzjEQMiY7wkVDWpTR3IE1K 1260198567 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0286C4A7E58; Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:09:26 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7pre) Gecko/20091204 Lightning/1.0b1pre Shredder/3.0.1pre In-Reply-To: <4B1CFC4C.6090406@bfs.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: walter harms venit, vidit, dixit 07.12.2009 13:59: > Hi list, > i am new to git (using: git version 1.6.0.2). though your git is not that new ;) > I would like to bisect a single file but i have only commit id, no tags. > > Background: > I have a copy of the busybox git repos, and i know there is (perhaps) a bug > in ash.c. > > how can i do that ? You don't need any tags for bisecting. The man page of git-bisect has several examples on how to use it. Do you have a test script which exposes the bug? Michael