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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: AAARGH bisection is hard (Re: [2.6.39 regression] X locks up
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:34:08 +0200
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Am 13.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> For example, in your case, since you had certain requirements of
> support that simply didn't exist earlier, something like
> 
>    git bisect requires v2.6.38
> 
> would have been really useful - telling git bisect that any commit
> that cannot reach that required commit is not even worth testing.

You can already have this with

   git bisect good v2.6.38

It sounds a bit unintuitive, but with a slight mind-twist it can even be
regarded as correct in a mathematical sense: when the precondition is
false, the result is true. ;-)

-- Hannes