Re: git bisect not accepting -git kernels

Julian Phillips wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Amit Walambe wrote:

quoted

But telling good/bad points to git bisect still fails, whether I pass 
the commit-id or the tags I created with commands given by René :

root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect good 
8f41958bdd577731f7411c9605cfaa9db6766809
cat: .git/BISECT_NAMES: No such file or directory
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git tag v2.6.22-git6 
8f41958bdd577731f7411c9605cfaa9db6766809
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git tag v2.6.22-git8 
a5fcaa210626a79465321e344c91a6a7dc3881fa
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect good v2.6.22-git6
cat: .git/BISECT_NAMES: No such file or directory
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git #
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect bad v2.6.22-git8
cat: .git/BISECT_NAMES: No such file or directory

Thanks and Regards,

you seem to be missing a "git bisect start" from that sequence ... see 
the man page for more details.

Yes indeed. Somehow the state was messed up due to different commands I 
had tried. Now it works ok.
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect good v2.6.22-git6
root@amit:/usr/src/linux-git # git bisect bad v2.6.22-git8
Bisecting: 362 revisions left to test after this
[02b2318e07f98a7cdf7089a4457a8d62424aa824] Merge branch 'master' of 
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
Thanks a lot for everyone for their help. _Much appreciated_!
Best Regards,
-- 
Amit Walambe
Design Engineer, Arcom Control Systems Ltd.
http://www.arcom.com
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