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Re: git bisect with temporary commits

From
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Dec 14, 2015, 18:08 UTC
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<87si34hphr.fsf@igel.home>
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<20151214163726.GY13519@tonks>
Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org> writes:
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> Now when trying to say it's good (and forgetting to remove the
> temporary commits), I get this:
>
>     $ git bisect good
>     Bisecting: a merge base must be tested
>     [981e1093dae24b37189bcba2dd848b0c3388080c] still good and does not compile
>
> Is this intended behaviour? Shouldn't git either do a reset to the
> commit we're currently bisecting, or warn the user as it was probably
> unintended to add new commits?

You should instead tell git that HEAD^ is good, since that is what git asked you to test.

Andreas.
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