Re: bisect help

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 27, 2006, 22:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20060627220421.GA7234@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7vi70bm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:31:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>               o---o---o---o satadev
>              /             \   
>             /               o test
>            /               / 
>    2.6.17 o---o---o---o---o master
> 
> You say master works but test does not.  But everything between
> 2.6.17 and satadev would not work with your board *anyway*, so
> bisect by itself is not very useful between master and test.

Since 'test' is a throwaway branch anyway, might it not make sense to
clone master to test and then rebase satadev onto it? Thus you would end
up with the linear history:
  o---o---o---o---o---o---o test (satadev')
  |           |
2.6.17      master

You know that master works and satadev' doesn't, and the bisection is simple. After you find that bug, you can throw away the test branch.

-Peff