From: walt Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:19:03 GMT Subject: Re: git-bisect not working correctly in the kvm.git repository? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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?