Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Sean wrote:
> 
> That's a good point.  Guess it would be useful if the HEAD commit was
> documented along with each -gitX release.

It is. Just get the "id" file that is associated with a snapshot, and it 
gives the git commit ID for that state.

So for example, the 2.6.14-rc1-git3 snapshot is associated with the ID 
file patch-2.6.14-rc1-git3.id, which contains 

	v2.6/snapshots(0)$ cat patch-2.6.14-rc1-git3.id
	065d9cac98a5406ecd5a1368f8fd38f55739dee9

so once you know that something broke between rc1-git3 and rc1-git4, you 
can now do

	git bisect start
	git bisect good 065d9cac98a5406ecd5a1368f8fd38f55739dee9
	git bisect bad bc5e8fdfc622b03acf5ac974a1b8b26da6511c99

and off you go..

		Linus
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