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Re: current git kernel has strange problems during bisect

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 11, 2009, 20:51 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0901112150110.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> >
> > For bisect purposes, if you know you're not chasing down a btrfs issue, 
> > you can do
> >
> > 	git bisect good 34353029534a08e41cfb8be647d734b9ce9ebff8
> 
> Could you perhaps add some standard tag for that commit? That 
> would make it easier than to always find the exact btrfs commit.
> 
> Just an idea.

Well, AFAICT what Linus hinted at is that you do not need such a standard tag. Indeed, you would only clutter the history with such tags, when it usually is just a matter of saying "git bisect good" whenever you _know_ you are hitting known-good history.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Christian BorntraegerJan 11, 2009
  2. Christian BorntraegerJan 11, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2009
  4. Christian BorntraegerJan 11, 2009
  5. Boaz HarroshJan 11, 2009
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2009
  7. Sam RavnborgJan 11, 2009
  8. Alexey ZaytsevJan 11, 2009
  9. Pierre HabouzitJan 11, 2009
  10. Christian CouderJan 12, 2009
  11. Christian CouderJan 12, 2009
  12. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2009
  13. Christian BorntraegerJan 11, 2009
  14. Daniel BarkalowJan 11, 2009
  15. Kyle MoffettJan 13, 2009
  16. Andreas BombeJan 15, 2009
  17. Kyle MoffettJan 15, 2009
  18. Sam RavnborgJan 11, 2009
  19. Alexey ZaytsevJan 11, 2009
  20. Sam RavnborgJan 11, 2009
  21. Daniel BarkalowJan 11, 2009
  22. Andi KleenJan 11, 2009
  23. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2009

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