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Message-Id: <200901111620.03345.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:20:03 +0100 From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com> To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@....de> Cc: git@...r.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: current git kernel has strange problems during bisect Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 schrieben Sie: > Hi, > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 schrieb Christian Borntraeger: > > > doing a > > > git bisect start > > > git bisect good a3a798c > > > git bisect bad v2.6.29-rc1 > > > > > > results in a repository without several files, e.g Makefile! > > > git describe also fails. > > > > In fact, retesting with a clean repository shows, that there are only btrfs > > files - nothing else. > > > > Linus did you pull a broken btrfs repository? > > I guess it is a subtree merge. So no, nothing went wrong > > Use "git bisect skip" to skip over those. I think we should really avoid merging subtrees to the linux kernel. It makes bisecting a real PITA. Furthermore, It is unlikely, but what if the problem is part of the 581 changesets from btrfs? Christian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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