linux-kernel - Re: More detailed text about bisecting Linux kernel regression -- request for comments and help

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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:18:34 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
	Linux kernel regressions list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
	Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: More detailed text about bisecting Linux kernel regression --
 request for comments and help

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 01:19:16PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> .. _bisectstart_bissbs:
> 
> * Start the bisection and tell Git about the versions earlier
> established as 'good' and 'bad'::
> 
>     cd ~/linux/
>     git bisect start
>     git bisect good v6.0
>     git bisect bad v6.1.5

If stable release tag is supplied instead as "good" version instead (e.g.
v6.0.1), as in many regression cases, git will ask to test the merge base
instead, which is corresponding mainline release (in this case v6.0).

Thanks.

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