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Re: git-bisect not working correctly in the kvm.git repository?

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Wwalt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 17, 2008, 20:19 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, walt wrote:
>> I'm trying to find a bug introduced somewhere between kvm-69
>> and kvm-70, so of course I want to git-bisect down to it.
>>
>> The weirdness is that when I give git-bisect the good and
>> bad tags, almost everything in my working directory just
>> disappears, leaving only the qemu subdirectory behind.
> ...
> If you merge stuff from another project that isn't a full repository, then
> you are merging commits that simply don't _have_ the full tree of your
> repo...

Okay, that's clearly what's happening to me. The kvm.git repo contains hundred of commits just like that. How would you deal with the same situation? Is git-bisect skip the easiest way?

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  1. waltNov 17, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsNov 17, 2008
  3. waltNov 17, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsNov 17, 2008
  5. Johannes SixtNov 18, 2008
  6. Avi KivityNov 18, 2008
  7. Christian CouderNov 17, 2008
  8. waltNov 17, 2008
  9. Christian CouderNov 18, 2008

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