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Feature request: git bisect merge to usable base

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ALAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date
Dec 30, 2015, 10:40 UTC
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Hi-

I'm currently bisecting a Linux bug on my laptop. The starting good commit is v4.4-rc3 and the starting bad commit is v4.4-rc7. Unfortunately, anything much older than v4.4-rc3 doesn't boot at all.

I'd like to say:
$ git bisect merge-to v4.4-rc3

or similar. The effect would be that, rather than testing commits in between the good and bad commits, it would test the result of merging those commits with v4.4-rc3.

Obviously the syntax could be tweaked a lot, but I think the concept could be quite handy.

Thanks, Andy

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  1. Andy LutomirskiDec 30, 2015
  2. Christian CouderDec 30, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 30, 2015
  4. Andy LutomirskiJan 4, 2016
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  6. Andy LutomirskiJan 4, 2016
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