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From: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with git bisect in git-1.6.3.3
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:13:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6b1100b0907090013q728201d9r5f536d0433e92f2b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5590A3.8070404@viscovery.net>

Hannes,

Thanks for your reply.

2009/7/9 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> 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".
>

Ah, it makes sense now. Thanks for your help.

Chris

> -- Hannes
>
>



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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-09  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-09  5:42 Problem with git bisect in git-1.6.3.3 Chris Clayton
2009-07-09  6:39 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-07-09  7:13   ` Chris Clayton [this message]
2009-07-10  5:05   ` Christian Couder

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