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From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>,
	Linux kernel regressions list <regressions@lists.linux.dev>,
	Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: More detailed text about bisecting Linux kernel regression -- request for comments and help
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:18:34 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZbW5emVndDNZlPTg@archie.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c763e15e-e82e-49f8-a540-d211d18768a3@leemhuis.info>

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On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 01:19:16PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> .. _bisectstart_bissbs:
> 
> * Start the bisection and tell Git about the versions earlier
> established as 'good' and 'bad'::
> 
>     cd ~/linux/
>     git bisect start
>     git bisect good v6.0
>     git bisect bad v6.1.5

If stable release tag is supplied instead as "good" version instead (e.g.
v6.0.1), as in many regression cases, git will ask to test the merge base
instead, which is corresponding mainline release (in this case v6.0).

Thanks.

-- 
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-28  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-24 12:19 More detailed text about bisecting Linux kernel regression -- request for comments and help Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-01-25  9:36 ` Jani Nikula
2024-01-25 10:28   ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-01-25 12:54     ` Jani Nikula
2024-01-28  2:18 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2024-01-28  5:28   ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2024-01-28 12:27     ` Bagas Sanjaya
2024-02-05  8:32 ` Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)

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