From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
Cc: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: kernel git bisect question
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:37:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110311183711.GA559@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7A6A99.5070304@compro.net>
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 01:31:53PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> On 03/10/2011 04:54 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:27:00PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> >> Between git bisect [good | bad ]s should I always "make clean" or can I
> >> count on the build system to take care of everything properly?
> >
>
> I'm trying to bisect between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36. What have I done wrong?
> Here is exactly what I've done. Why after my second "git bisect bad" do
> I get a Makefile for 2.6.35-rc1 and then after the fourth I get a Makefile
> for 2.6.34??
The development is not linear.
So you see a commit developed on top of 2.6.34 that was included in 2.6.35.
This is normal.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-11 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-10 20:27 Mark Hounschell
2011-03-10 21:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-03-10 21:17 ` Mark Hounschell
2011-03-10 21:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-11 18:31 ` Mark Hounschell
2011-03-11 18:37 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2011-03-11 18:41 ` Mark Hounschell
2011-03-11 18:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-11 18:56 ` Mark Hounschell
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