Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
The patch makes sense. In fact you can crash any released
version like this:
$ git rev-list --bisect v1.5.2..v1.5.0
I'll need to apply a moral equivalent to 'maint'.
I spoke too fast. This is not broken in any released version.
Only with the patch from somebody that broke it with commit
ce0cbad7727457854d631a6314d9aee7c837cb65 (rev-list --bisect:
Move finding bisection into do_find_bisection.), the "empty set"
case would segfault ;-).