From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Clayton Subject: Re: Problem with git bisect in git-1.6.3.3 Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:13:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4A5590A3.8070404@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Sixt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 09 09:13:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MOnpG-0004VH-1n for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:13:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759706AbZGIHNd (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 03:13:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759096AbZGIHNd (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 03:13:33 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com ([209.85.220.218]:50356 "EHLO mail-fx0-f218.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756810AbZGIHNc (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 03:13:32 -0400 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so6196029fxm.37 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:13:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=//z1DAJCmWayKnGVDFHYch1WT0UCuJ3aQOVBEQ369OM=; b=uzl5TGJrFnrOt8lXEegHrPJuFaYJIhPqCi2lGYWkNrKKBH9jEdgi8v3FrnLi/ZhLbv dFZgwK4ofxcDf0Sb1AFgyJVYZQloBicWwKNgdp5uddfjuENQJcGFMZEulWoP/niMOgoi XDa662qrPIYKXwABtyc5TQE4XsrgUqcrz0YtE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=g7HJGz61KDfiQNQ4OnhNUWb4b7WT6vRnc2/QX7xQ9SzAgbUIFGpZlMCACivWT+pqO4 J3Tn4gv/O/TKJFpmkp39Vfk6cYw44oxTcMaYTnbiOX0GHjlrrzgt8K3/DeC/BCfiPC7h sskphaaUkPITjHec2soMqNODKWN2a+BLRDZoQ= Received: by 10.204.118.69 with SMTP id u5mr413613bkq.77.1247123610785; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:13:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A5590A3.8070404@viscovery.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hannes, Thanks for your reply. 2009/7/9 Johannes Sixt : > 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 > > -- No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn - Doctor Samuel Johnson