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From: Joel Kaasinen <joel@zenrobotics.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] git bisect start fails when stale bisect data is left behind
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 14:15:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC6WLetwT9UvBY_=Nf38hhkyU1mhmdWHWqscf3ebba1WRGS1LQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

Just bumped into a weird bug: bisect refused to start. It seems some
previous bisect had left around state that referred to a
now-nonexistent branch.

How to reproduce:
$ echo foo > .git/BISECT_START
$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD^

Fails with "fatal: invalid reference:" on git 1.7.6.

–J

PS. Please CC me when answering, I'm not subscribed

             reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05 11:15 Joel Kaasinen [this message]
2011-09-06  7:48 ` [BUG] git bisect start fails when stale bisect data is left behind Christian Couder
2011-09-06 16:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-07  4:48     ` Christian Couder
2011-09-07  6:28     ` Joel Kaasinen
2011-09-07 10:51       ` Junio C Hamano

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