Re: kernel git bisect question

[Mark Hounschell]

On 03/11/2011 01:37 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 01:31:53PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
>> On 03/10/2011 04:54 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> I'm trying to bisect between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36. What have I done wrong?
>> Here is exactly what I've done. Why after my second "git bisect bad" do
>> I get a Makefile for 2.6.35-rc1 and then after the fourth I get a Makefile
>> for 2.6.34??
> 
> The development is not linear.
> So you see a commit developed on top of 2.6.34 that was included in 2.6.35.
> This is normal.
> 

OK, thanks again. I'll continue on with the process then.

Mark
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