From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 18:34:08 GMT
Subject: Re: AAARGH bisection is hard (Re: [2.6.39 regression] X locks up hard right after logging in)
Message-ID: <4DCD79A0.7000500@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinVT=9+-HhwXcyLBwrnhX9F9Qz3ww@mail.gmail.com>

Am 13.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> For example, in your case, since you had certain requirements of
> support that simply didn't exist earlier, something like
> 
>    git bisect requires v2.6.38
> 
> would have been really useful - telling git bisect that any commit
> that cannot reach that required commit is not even worth testing.

You can already have this with

   git bisect good v2.6.38

It sounds a bit unintuitive, but with a slight mind-twist it can even be
regarded as correct in a mathematical sense: when the precondition is
false, the result is true. ;-)

-- Hannes