From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:14:12 GMT
Subject: Re: git bisect goes wild?
Message-ID: <87prh7abqz.fsf@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20090224191002.GF22108@duck.suse.cz>

On 2009-02-24 20:10 (+0100), Jan Kara wrote:

>   Ho, hum, right. But if I do:
> git describe 9ec76fbf7d6da3e98070a7059699d0ca019b0c9b
>   I get v2.6.23-rc3-215-g9ec76fb which is a bit strange for bisecting
> between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24. Also the kernel gets named 2.6.23-rc3 and
> kernel config options get also to some pre 2.6.23 state. That's what
> is confusing me. It seems like the kernel checked out is some old one.
> I'm not a git expert so it might be fine but it just seems really
> strange.

Maybe this explanation helps:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99967/focus=99977