Re: current git kernel has strange problems during bisect

From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Date: Jan 11, 2009, 15:20 UTC
Message-ID: <200901111620.03345.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901111613250.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 schrieben Sie:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> 
> > Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> > > doing a 
> > > git bisect start
> > > git bisect good a3a798c
> > > git bisect bad v2.6.29-rc1
> > > 
> > > results in a repository without several files, e.g Makefile!
> > > git describe also fails.
> > 
> > In fact, retesting with a clean repository shows, that there are only

btrfs

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> > files - nothing else.
> > 
> > Linus did you pull a broken btrfs repository?
> 
> I guess it is a subtree merge.  So no, nothing went wrong
> 
> Use "git bisect skip" to skip over those.

I think we should really avoid merging subtrees to the linux kernel. It makes bisecting a real PITA. Furthermore, It is unlikely, but what if the problem is part of the 581 changesets from btrfs?

Christian