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SubjectRe: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC
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On Tuesday 02 September 2008 14:12, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, David Sanders wrote:
> > I reverted the commit and the problem persits, so nops are definitely not
> > the problem. I started an new bisection but am now in a state that won't
> > compile due to errors. What do I do in that case?
>
> You can try "git bisect skip", but in general the better choice is to just
> do
>
> git bisect visualize
>
> to open up gitk with the current set of possible targets, and then just
> pick a likely point by hand, and do
>
> git reset --hard <sha1-of-the-thing-you-picked>
>
> and try that one instead. There's some talk about this in "man git-bisect"
> but maybe it's not very good.
>
> Linus

OK thanks, I had to build a new version of git because the one installed with
my distribution was too old to have git bisect skip. I am trying to use the
gitk method you mentioned but it is going slow and on my screen gitk's fonts
are very hard to read.
David


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