Re: bisect gives strange answer

From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Aug 4, 2005, 07:23 UTC
Message-ID: <E1E0a4e-0000vu-69@approximate.corpus.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xzi42bm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

> Could you try this please?

Thanks, it now finishes with the diff that I expected:

3d3c2ae1101c1f2dff7e2f9d514769779dbd2737 is first bad commit
diff-tree 3d3c2ae1101c1f2dff7e2f9d514769779dbd2737 (from a18bcb7450840f07a772a45229de4811d930f461)
Author: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Date:   Wed Jul 6 09:09:38 2005 -0700

    [PATCH] PCI: fix !CONFIG_HOTPLUG pci build problem
    
    Here's a patch to fix the build issue when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not enabled
    in 2.6.13-rc2.
    
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

:040000 040000 93e93c4d8e88d6e05e815261f96ab38376c92809 b9cbda6dd88aeca51031d36e00f396e7091fd54c M	drivers

The full run is included below.

-Sanjoy

`A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.'
   - Bertrand de Jouvenal

+ git bisect reset
+ git bisect start
+ git bisect good 17af691cd19765b782d891fc50c1568d0f1276b3
+ git bisect bad c101f3136cc98a003d0d16be6fab7d0d950581a6
Bisecting: 42 revisions left to test after this
+ cat .git/HEAD
b2f571026594884e7a2a3f8bc6ad5c92e0703330
+ git bisect good
Bisecting: 30 revisions left to test after this
+ cat .git/HEAD
450008b5a62bb09445ae05c4d01d510386c9435d
+ git bisect good
Bisecting: 15 revisions left to test after this
+ cat .git/HEAD
a9df3597fec5472d0840fbfdc2a3fac5268f7d08
+ git bisect bad
Bisecting: 8 revisions left to test after this
+ cat .git/HEAD
28e8c3ad9464de54a632f00ab3df88fa5f4652d1
+ git bisect bad
Bisecting: 4 revisions left to test after this
+ cat .git/HEAD
c774e93e2152d0be2612739418689e6e6400f4eb
+ git bisect bad
Bisecting: 2 revisions left to test after this
+ cat .git/HEAD
b4634484815e1879512a23e4f59eef648135c30a
+ git bisect bad
3d3c2ae1101c1f2dff7e2f9d514769779dbd2737 is first bad commit
diff-tree 3d3c2ae1101c1f2dff7e2f9d514769779dbd2737 (from a18bcb7450840f07a772a45229de4811d930f461)
Author: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Date:   Wed Jul 6 09:09:38 2005 -0700

    [PATCH] PCI: fix !CONFIG_HOTPLUG pci build problem
    
    Here's a patch to fix the build issue when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not enabled
    in 2.6.13-rc2.
    
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

:040000 040000 93e93c4d8e88d6e05e815261f96ab38376c92809 b9cbda6dd88aeca51031d36e00f396e7091fd54c M	drivers