Re: git bisect not accepting -git kernels

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Jul 17, 2007, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707171809190.29062@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <469CF52D.10407@arcom.com>

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Amit Walambe wrote:

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> But telling good/bad points to git bisect still fails, whether I pass the 
> commit-id or the tags I created with commands given by René :
>
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect good 
> 8f41958bdd577731f7411c9605cfaa9db6766809
> cat: .git/BISECT_NAMES: No such file or directory
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git tag v2.6.22-git6 
> 8f41958bdd577731f7411c9605cfaa9db6766809
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git tag v2.6.22-git8 
> a5fcaa210626a79465321e344c91a6a7dc3881fa
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect good v2.6.22-git6
> cat: .git/BISECT_NAMES: No such file or directory
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
> root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect bad v2.6.22-git8
> cat: .git/BISECT_NAMES: No such file or directory
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>

you seem to be missing a "git bisect start" from that sequence ... see the man page for more details.

-- 
Julian

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