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Message-ID: <20070618225009.GE13538@alinoe.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:50:09 +0200
From:	Carlo Wood <carlo@...noe.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	eric@...olt.net, zhenyu.z.wang@...el.com, lethal@...ux-sh.org,
	y-goto@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc5 regression

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:42:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You really do want to use git-1.5.x these days.
> 
> It does look like 1.4.4.4 may have a bug, although I'm really surprised: 
> we've certainly tweaked stuff in bisection, but I and others have used 
> "git bisect" since long before the git-1.4 days, and it has always worked 
> ok. So I wonder if it's something specific to that debian build.

Well, it does indeed.

Without changing ANYTHING to my linux-2.6 source tree - I just
installed git 1.5.2.1 and now it behaves the way you describe.

Conclusion: the weird behaviour that you think was wrong is
totally due to git 1.4.4.4.

I'll redo the bisect with this new git.

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@...noe.com>
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