# Re: AAARGH bisection is hard (Re: \[2.6.39 regression\] X locks up hard right after logging in)

- From: Johannes Sixt \<hidden\>
- Date: 2011-05-13 18:34:13 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2011/05/3714945
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2011/05/3714413/t.md

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Am 13.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> For example, in your case, since you had certain requirements of
> support that simply didn't exist earlier, something like
> 
>    git bisect requires v2.6.38
> 
> would have been really useful - telling git bisect that any commit
> that cannot reach that required commit is not even worth testing.

You can already have this with

   git bisect good v2.6.38

It sounds a bit unintuitive, but with a slight mind-twist it can even be
regarded as correct in a mathematical sense: when the precondition is
false, the result is true. ;-)

-- Hannes
```