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git bisect start on a tag revision fails

From
RDReece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
Date
Feb 10, 2008, 11:01 UTC
Message-ID
<3f4fd2640802100301y436bda41kcca1b1eb8ec0ea10@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

When hunting bugs with the wine source code (git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git), both Dan Kegel and I have found the following berhaviour with git bisect:

$ git checkout wine-0.9.54 HEAD is now at 8f954cc... Release 0.9.54. $ git bisect start fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic ref

Whereas doing:

$ git checkout master $ git bisect start

then:

$ git checkout wine-0.9.54 $ git bisect good

works.
Is it possible to have bisect support non-symbolic refs?
- Reece
Next: Johannes Schindelin
Message 1 of 2 in “git bisect start on a tag revision fails”
  1. Reece DunnFeb 10, 2008
  2. bisect: allow starting with a detached HEADJohannes Schindelin, Feb 10, 2008

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