Re: git bisect goes wild?

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Feb 24, 2009, 19:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20090224192809.GG22108@duck.suse.cz>
In-Reply-To: <87prh7abqz.fsf@iki.fi>

On Tue 24-02-09 21:14:12, Teemu Likonen wrote:

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> On 2009-02-24 20:10 (+0100), Jan Kara wrote:
> 
> >   Ho, hum, right. But if I do:
> > git describe 9ec76fbf7d6da3e98070a7059699d0ca019b0c9b
> >   I get v2.6.23-rc3-215-g9ec76fb which is a bit strange for bisecting
> > between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24. Also the kernel gets named 2.6.23-rc3 and
> > kernel config options get also to some pre 2.6.23 state. That's what
> > is confusing me. It seems like the kernel checked out is some old one.
> > I'm not a git expert so it might be fine but it just seems really
> > strange.
> 
> Maybe this explanation helps:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99967/focus=99977

  OK, thanks for the pointer. I'll trust that the result will be sensible
:).

									Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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