From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [BUG] Git bisect not finding the right commit Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:01 +0100 Message-ID: <4F17D2E5.7000400@viscovery.net> References: <87r4yw8j4i.fsf@franz.ak.mind.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Andreas J. Koenig" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 19 09:23:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnnH5-0000gK-Q6 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754899Ab2ASIXI (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:23:08 -0500 Received: from lilzmailso02.liwest.at ([212.33.55.13]:55921 "EHLO lilzmailso02.liwest.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754427Ab2ASIXG (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:23:06 -0500 Received: from cpe228-254-static.liwest.at ([81.10.228.254] helo=theia.linz.viscovery) by lilzmailso02.liwest.at with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnnGw-0006E7-If; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:02 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.95] (J6T.linz.viscovery [192.168.1.95]) by theia.linz.viscovery (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E47D1660F; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:02 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <87r4yw8j4i.fsf@franz.ak.mind.de> X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 1/19/2012 4:29, schrieb Andreas J. Koenig: > - A -> B -> C - D -> > \ / > - E - F - > > A v5.15.5 > B v5.15.5-20-gfd76d40 > C v5.15.5-81-gcfe287a > D v5.15.5-159-ga71d67b > E v5.15.4-110-g27b29ec > F v5.15.4-169-g3582575 I haven't looked at the actual history, but given the names of the commits as produced by git-describe, I doubt that your history graph sketched above is correct. Doesn't it look more like this: A -- B -- C -- D -- / / -- X -- E -- F where X is v5.15.4? To find a commit between A and B, you must declare F as "good". -- Hannes