Re: bisect gives strange answer

2005-08-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having doing a stupidity with git, but here's what is confusing me about using bisect: If I start with a clean directory except for a 2.6 .git/ (where master = d95a1b4818f2fe38a3cfc9a7d5817dc9a1a69329), then do $ cd linux-2.6 $ ls $ cat

Re: bisect gives strange answer

2005-08-05 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
If you see any sort of evidence that this would hold true I really like to know. I haven't found any evidence. When I rebuilt the kernels from scratch (exporting them into an empty directory using cg-export), I got reliable data and bisected down to a patch that probably was a problem. I will

Re: bisect gives strange answer

2005-08-04 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:23:28AM -0400, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Could you try this please? Thanks, it now finishes with the diff that I expected: 3d3c2ae1101c1f2dff7e2f9d514769779dbd2737 is first bad commit diff-tree 3d3c2ae1101c1f2dff7e2f9d514769779dbd2737 (from

Re: bisect gives strange answer

2005-08-04 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
By any chance, is this patch causing you problems? No, sadly. But I had hopes! As I think about it more, there's no way it could, since I have CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y, so moving the CONFIG_HOTPLUG would not change anything (for those who don't know the patch, it is appended below). My latest

Re: bisect gives strange answer

2005-08-04 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 06:41:41PM +0100, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: By any chance, is this patch causing you problems? No, sadly. But I had hopes! As I think about it more, there's no way it could, since I have CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y, so moving the CONFIG_HOTPLUG would not change anything (for

Re: bisect gives strange answer

2005-08-04 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Em, if you don't compile/test those intermediate versions, how do you know whether to tag it good/bad ? Sorry, I wrote this part carelessly: If I had checked out and compiled those intermediate versions from scratch... I meant to emphasize the 'from scratch'. I did check out and compile

Re: bisect gives strange answer

2005-08-04 Thread Junio C Hamano
Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Em, if you don't compile/test those intermediate versions, how do you know whether to tag it good/bad ? I think Sanjoy is saying that they _were_ tested, and suspects that bisect didn't leave the right versions of the files in the work tree, so what was