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Re: git bisect not accepting -git kernels

From
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date
Jul 17, 2007, 16:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20070717164436.GA26953@uranus.ravnborg.org>
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<469CE836.6010508@arcom.com>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:03:02PM +0100, Amit Walambe wrote:
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> Hi!
> I was trying to do a git bisect on 2.6.22-git6 and 2.6.22-git8. For 
> which I get following error :
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect good v2.6.22-git6
> Bad rev input: v2.6.22-git6
> 
> The repository is obtained by :
> root@amit:/usr/src # git clone 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 linux-git

The -git# is added by a script and does not exists as tags. The same place where you retreive the -git files has a file identifying the commit that is the latest - use the SHA of this and you should be happy.

	Sam
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  1. Amit WalambeJul 17, 2007
  2. Peter BaumannJul 17, 2007
  3. Thomas GlanzmannJul 17, 2007
  4. Amit WalambeJul 17, 2007
  5. Amit WalambeJul 17, 2007
  6. Sam RavnborgJul 17, 2007
  7. René ScharfeJul 17, 2007
  8. Amit WalambeJul 17, 2007
  9. Julian PhillipsJul 17, 2007
  10. Amit WalambeJul 17, 2007
  11. Rogan DawesJul 17, 2007

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