Re: help: bisect single file from repos

Michael J Gruber schrieb:

walter harms venit, vidit, dixit 07.12.2009 13:59:

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Hi list,
i am new to git (using: git version 1.6.0.2).

though your git is not that new ;)

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I would like to bisect a single file but i have only commit id, no tags.

Background:
I have a copy of the busybox git repos, and i know there is (perhaps) a bug
in ash.c.

how can i do that ?

You don't need any tags for bisecting. The man page of git-bisect has
several examples on how to use it. Do you have a test script which
exposes the bug?

unfortunately no, the error shows up very nicely when booting my embdedded system
but not else (this is the reason i would to bisect that file only and not busybox
completely). And from the man pages i got the impression that it is only possible the
start with a tag.

i already had the hint that i need to do:
git bisect start bad_commit_id good_commit_id -- ash.c

Ntl, there is one more question, how can i make sure that
i use the right version ? first i toughed  that cherry-pick is the right idea
but it seems that that will apply onyl certain patches ?

re,
 wh