From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: How can I automatically create a GIT branch that represents a sequence of tags? Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:36:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git To: Kristian Freed X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 11 11:37:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V8S59-0002tg-DQ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:37:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752706Ab3HKJg6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Aug 2013 05:36:58 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:33432 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752642Ab3HKJg5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Aug 2013 05:36:57 -0400 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3cCZpG5m8Tz4KK2D; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:36:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3cCZpG5dqjzbbhD; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:36:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FSYrezztZjbx; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:36:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: SOlLw7+QRQC6dacldsNilGw69uHxuFdO5uKTJ9etUvI= Received: from linux.local (ppp-93-104-130-204.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.130.204]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:36:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by linux.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5F1751E57D6; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:36:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: I'm a GENIUS! I want to dispute sentence structure with SUSAN SONTAG!! In-Reply-To: (Kristian Freed's message of "Sat, 10 Aug 2013 23:29:45 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Kristian Freed writes: > To help with this process further, it would be useful to be able to > use git bisect, but as these are just a sequence of tags, not commits > on a branch, git bisect will not work as is. git bisect takes arbitrary revisions, there is no restriction on using tags as bounds. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."