From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:08:10 GMT
Subject: Re: help: bisect single file from repos
Message-ID: <4B1D1A5A.9060004@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B1CFC4C.6090406@bfs.de>

walter harms venit, vidit, dixit 07.12.2009 13:59:
> Hi list,
> i am new to git (using: git version 1.6.0.2).

though your git is not that new ;)

> I would like to bisect a single file but i have only commit id, no tags.
> 
> Background:
> I have a copy of the busybox git repos, and i know there is (perhaps) a bug
> in ash.c.
> 
> how can i do that ?

You don't need any tags for bisecting. The man page of git-bisect has
several examples on how to use it. Do you have a test script which
exposes the bug?

Michael