Re: bisect gives strange answer

From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Aug 4, 2005, 18:32 UTC
Message-ID: <E1E0kVw-0003re-00@skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20050804182717.GA2241@redhat.com>

> Errrrm, if you don't compile/test those intermediate versions,
> how do you know whether to tag it good/bad ?

Sorry, I wrote this part carelessly: "If I had checked out and compiled those intermediate versions from scratch..."

I meant to emphasize the 'from scratch'. I did check out and compile the versions, but I didn't compile from scratch. i.e. I just took whatever directory tree I got after

  git bisect good
or
  git bisect bad

and then did 'make -j 4'.  Perhaps I should have done

  make clean 
  <restore .config>
  make -j 4

to be really sure that every file that needed recompilation got recompiled.

-Sanjoy