Re: GIT bisection range errors

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 12:20:16AM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I'm in a git bisect and am experiencing strangeness. I did a
>
> $ git checkout -b rc v2.6.26-rc1
> $ git bisect start
> $ git bisect bad
> $ git bisect good v2.6.25
>
> Yet, during this I'm finding myself at 2.6.25-rc6 and 2.6.25-rc8
> as the last two results (both good...).
>
> Here's the BISECT_LOG upto this point. Is there anyone available
> who understands this well enough to be able to say from this that
> my tree is fubar? It should be a straight Linus' clone, and it's
> always pulling without trouble.
>
> git-bisect start
> # bad: [2ddcca36c8bcfa251724fe342c8327451988be0d] Linux 2.6.26-rc1
> git-bisect bad 2ddcca36c8bcfa251724fe342c8327451988be0d
> # good: [4b119e21d0c66c22e8ca03df05d9de623d0eb50f] Linux 2.6.25
> git-bisect good 4b119e21d0c66c22e8ca03df05d9de623d0eb50f
> # bad: [7ae44cfa7ab29b277691327e8de790d7b880722f] [ALSA] snd-powermac: style awacs.s and awacs.h
> git-bisect bad 7ae44cfa7ab29b277691327e8de790d7b880722f
> # good: [7cea51be4e91edad05bd834f3235b45c57783f0d] security: fix up documentation for security_module_enable
> git-bisect good 7cea51be4e91edad05bd834f3235b45c57783f0d
> # bad: [8f19ca1341a6d89bd96e2e69e6e10f46d3258089] x86: unify gfp masks
> git-bisect bad 8f19ca1341a6d89bd96e2e69e6e10f46d3258089
> # good: [f49e1aa133c2c9b74b5dfddca8863609bbda9086] [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_sip: update copyright
> git-bisect good f49e1aa133c2c9b74b5dfddca8863609bbda9086
> # good: [0b18542b7f5379e052d2a3132be91185776e7ceb] [NET]: Sink IPv6 menuoptions into its own submenu
> git-bisect good 0b18542b7f5379e052d2a3132be91185776e7ceb

Don't trust any dates you see in git.  ;-)

The last commit in your list was added to David's tree at around the 
time Linus released Linux 2.6.25-rc7.

But David's tree was merged into Linus' tree after 2.6.25.

So actually everything is fine.

> Rene.

cu
Adrian

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