From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:08:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list --bisect: Fix best == NULL case.
Message-ID: <7vhclplsq7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyvhltpy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> The patch makes sense.  In fact you can crash any released
> version like this:
>
>     $ git rev-list --bisect v1.5.2..v1.5.0
>
> I'll need to apply a moral equivalent to 'maint'.

I spoke too fast.  This is not broken in any released version.

Only with the patch from somebody that broke it with commit
ce0cbad7727457854d631a6314d9aee7c837cb65 (rev-list --bisect:
Move finding bisection into do_find_bisection.), the "empty set"
case would segfault ;-).