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SubjectRe: current git kernel has strange problems during bisect
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Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 schrieben Sie:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>
> > Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> > > doing a
> > > git bisect start
> > > git bisect good a3a798c
> > > git bisect bad v2.6.29-rc1
> > >
> > > results in a repository without several files, e.g Makefile!
> > > git describe also fails.
> >
> > In fact, retesting with a clean repository shows, that there are only
btrfs
> > files - nothing else.
> >
> > Linus did you pull a broken btrfs repository?
>
> I guess it is a subtree merge. So no, nothing went wrong
>
> Use "git bisect skip" to skip over those.

I think we should really avoid merging subtrees to the linux kernel. It makes
bisecting a real PITA.
Furthermore, It is unlikely, but what if the problem is part of the 581
changesets from btrfs?

Christian


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