From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:55:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.0.2
Message-ID: <1268027758.6298.109.camel@marge.simson.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpez4cr6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 21:13 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 14:29 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >>  * "git bisect -- pathspec..." did not diagnose an error condition properly when
> >>    the simplification with given pathspec made the history empty.
> >
> > Would that be what led to this somewhat less than perfect tip bisection
> > result?
> 
> The bugfix was about the case where there was no change between the bad
> and good commit with respect to the given pathspec, so I suspect your case
> was irrelevant.

Oh, ok.  Thanks.

> Your case probably was coming from that you originally suspected one of
> the commits that touch tools/perf was a culprit, but because that initial
> suspicion was wrong, bisection didn't find anything useful.

Hm, the successfully bisected and verified culprit was pure tools/perf.

marge:..git/linux-2.6 # git show 804b36068eccd8163ccea420c662fb5d1a21b141|grep diff
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h

Oh well.  Something went wonky.. I'll survive :)

	-Mike