Re: [BUG] Git bisect not finding the right commit

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Jan 19, 2012, 08:23 UTC
Message-ID: <4F17D2E5.7000400@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <87r4yw8j4i.fsf@franz.ak.mind.de>

Am 1/19/2012 4:29, schrieb Andreas J. Koenig:

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> 	- A -> B      ->     C - D ->
> 	         \         /
> 	          - E - F -
> 
> A v5.15.5
> B v5.15.5-20-gfd76d40
> C v5.15.5-81-gcfe287a
> D v5.15.5-159-ga71d67b
> E v5.15.4-110-g27b29ec
> F v5.15.4-169-g3582575

I haven't looked at the actual history, but given the names of the commits as produced by git-describe, I doubt that your history graph sketched above is correct. Doesn't it look more like this:

      A -- B -- C -- D --
     /         /
 -- X -- E -- F

where X is v5.15.4?

To find a commit between A and B, you must declare F as "good".

-- Hannes