Trying to do a bisect with git version 1.5.6.3 didn't work with the setlocalversion script
Running
git name-rev --tags HEAD
gives the output
HEAD tags/v2.6.27-rc4~44^2
This isn't matched by setlocalversion regexp so it makes it harder to make deb-pkg/install/grub/reboot/remove
Of course if this patch is accepted it is going to make life complicated when bisecting around it.
Maybe git should behave as the man page suggests and have the ^X before the ~nnn? (maybe it has been fixed already)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.5.6.5/git-name-rev.html
shows an example:
33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99^0~940
David
commit 511c5f04eb2df03dbbae97ede82913da1f141f86
Author: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Date: Sat Aug 30 14:53:35 2008 +0100
setlocalversion wasn't producing git labels for bisect