Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 10:13:22 +0200 | | From | "Vegard Nossum" <> | | Subject | Re: spontaneous reboots and hangs on x86_64 | |
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Mariusz Kozlowski
<m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> > > > ~/linux/linux-next $ git bisect start
>> > > > fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref
>> > > > Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic ref
>> >
>> > This would indicate something wrong with your clone of linux-next. How
>> > did you create the repository?
>> >
>> > > > - how does one bisect on linux-next?
>> >
>> > Any day's linux-next tree is a git tree like any other ...
>>
>> Hm it can be that I did something wrong ...
>
> and I did :/ I think I just started this repo in wrong way - according to linux-next FAQ.
> I'll just start from scratch then.
You need to be on a branch. If git-branch says this:
$ git branch
* (no branch)
then git will not allow you to bisect:
$ git bisect start v2.6.24 v2.6.25
fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref
Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic ref
Try first checkout out a new branch:
$ git checkout -b bisect
Switched to a new branch "bisect"
$ git bisect start v2.6.24 v2.6.25
Switched to branch "master"
Good luck!
Vegard
--
"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
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