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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-bisect not working correctly in the kvm.git repository?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:19:03 -0800
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, walt wrote:
>> I'm trying to find a bug introduced somewhere between kvm-69
>> and kvm-70, so of course I want to git-bisect down to it.
>>
>> The weirdness is that when I give git-bisect the good and
>> bad tags, almost everything in my working directory just
>> disappears, leaving only the qemu subdirectory behind.

> ...
> If you merge stuff from another project that isn't a full repository, then
> you are merging commits that simply don't _have_ the full tree of your
> repo...

Okay, that's clearly what's happening to me.  The kvm.git repo
contains hundred of commits just like that.  How would you deal
with the same situation?  Is git-bisect skip the easiest way?