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git bisect fails to handle annotated tags

From
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Mar 16, 2021, 13:05 UTC
Message-ID
<878s6nz1sg.fsf@igel.home>
$ git --version
git version 2.31.0
$ git bisect start
$ git bisect good v2.30.0
$ git bisect bad v2.31.0
3e90d4b58f3819cfd58ac61cb8668e83d3ea0563 was both good and bad
$ git bisect log
git bisect start
# good: [71ca53e8125e36efbda17293c50027d31681a41f] Git 2.30
git bisect good 2d9685d47a7e516281aa093bf0cddc8aafa72448
# bad: [a5828ae6b52137b913b978e16cd2334482eb4c1f] Git 2.31
git bisect bad 3e90d4b58f3819cfd58ac61cb8668e83d3ea0563
$ git bisect start
Already on 'master'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
$ git bisect good v2.30.0^{}
$ git bisect bad v2.31.0^{}
Bisecting: 453 revisions left to test after this (roughly 9 steps)
[41abfe15d95ede4c2a047180a6062eac23d8f7d6] maintenance: add pack-refs task
$ git bisect log
git bisect start
# good: [71ca53e8125e36efbda17293c50027d31681a41f] Git 2.30
git bisect good 71ca53e8125e36efbda17293c50027d31681a41f
# bad: [a5828ae6b52137b913b978e16cd2334482eb4c1f] Git 2.31
git bisect bad a5828ae6b52137b913b978e16cd2334482eb4c1f
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  4. Bagas SanjayaMar 17, 2021
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