From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965079AbVIHXrw (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:47:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965083AbVIHXrw (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:47:52 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:3044 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965079AbVIHXrv (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:47:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:47:19 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@gmail.com Subject: Re: rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays where rc4-mm1 works fine. Message-Id: <20050908164719.00066dc2.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050805104025.GA14688@aitel.hist.no> <21d7e99705080503515e3045d5@mail.gmail.com> <42F89F79.1060103@aitel.hist.no> <42FC7372.7040607@aitel.hist.no> <43008C9C.60806@aitel.hist.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > If you remember/save the good/bad commit ID's, you can restart the whole > process and just feed the correct state for the ID's: > > git bisect start > git bisect bad v2.6.13-rc5 > git bisect good v2.6.13-rc4 > .. here bisect will start narrowing things down .. > git bisect bad > git bisect good > .. What do you suggest should be done if you hit a compile error partway through the bisection search? Is there some way to go forward or backward a few csets while keeping the search markers sane?