Re: current git kernel has strange problems during bisect

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > For bisect purposes, if you know you're not chasing down a btrfs issue, 
> > you can do
> >
> > 	git bisect good 34353029534a08e41cfb8be647d734b9ce9ebff8
> 
> Could you perhaps add some standard tag for that commit? That 
> would make it easier than to always find the exact btrfs commit.
> 
> Just an idea.

Well, AFAICT what Linus hinted at is that you do not need such a standard 
tag.  Indeed, you would only clutter the history with such tags, when it 
usually is just a matter of saying "git bisect good" whenever you _know_ 
you are hitting known-good history.

Ciao,
Dscho

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