From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933747AbYEHW11 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 18:27:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752558AbYEHW1R (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 18:27:17 -0400 Received: from smtp4.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.38]:47015 "EHLO smtp4.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751228AbYEHW1Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 18:27:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 01:25:45 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Rene Herman Cc: Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: GIT bisection range errors Message-ID: <20080508222545.GH22887@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <48237CA0.4080001@keyaccess.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48237CA0.4080001@keyaccess.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed