linux-kernel - Re: git bisect selects commit outside initial bisect range?

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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:29:13 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Paweł Sikora <pluto@...k.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git bisect selects commit outside initial bisect range?

Paweł Sikora <pluto@...k.net> writes:

> i've started git bisect between good-v2.6.34 and bad-v2.6.35-rc1
> and after few steps git-bisect jumps to commit before v2.6.34.
>
> [~/src/linux/linux-2.6]$ make kernelrelease
> 2.6.34-rc6-00551-g7a6cb0d
>
> is it normal that bisect selects next step outside initial range?

It's not outside the range:

$ git rev-list v2.6.34..v2.6.35-rc1 | grep ^7a6cb0d
7a6cb0d5497418599d2125b670926b75e673861c

7a6cb0d is a commit in a branch reachable from v2.6.35-rc1 but not from
v2.6.34.

Andreas.

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