linux-kernel - Re: kernel git bisect question

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Message-ID: <20110310211414.GA31719@merkur.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:14:14 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Mark Hounschell <markh@...pro.net>
Cc:	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel git bisect question

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:27:00PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Between git bisect [good | bad ]s should I always "make clean" or can I
> count on the build system to take care of everything properly?

You can count on the build system to take care.
It is very rare that the build system does not handle this.

Lately we fixed a bug where we did not properly handled when a file
was renamed from *.S to *.c. But you will most likely not hit this.

	Sam
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