From: Joel Kaasinen <joel@zenrobotics.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:15:34 GMT
Subject: [BUG] git bisect start fails when stale bisect data is left behind
Message-ID: <CAC6WLetwT9UvBY_=Nf38hhkyU1mhmdWHWqscf3ebba1WRGS1LQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Just bumped into a weird bug: bisect refused to start. It seems some
previous bisect had left around state that referred to a
now-nonexistent branch.

How to reproduce:
$ echo foo > .git/BISECT_START
$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD^

Fails with "fatal: invalid reference:" on git 1.7.6.

–J

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