Subject: Re: git-bisect broken in 1.2.4

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 09:33:04 +0200

On Tue, May 02, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Uwe Zeisberger <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Olaf Hering wrote:
> >> Did SuSE just pick up a bad version of git, 1.2.4?
> >> git-bisect doesnt work correctly in the kernel sources, .git/HEAD doesnt
> >> contain the commit id anymore, but 'ref: refs/heads/bisect'
> >> 
> >> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO depends on the id.
> > Probably you should update to at least linux-v2.6.15-g117a93d.  The
> > script to determine the localversion[1] depends on .git/HEAD being a
> > symlink.
> >
> > Since 
> >
> > 	git-1.1.4-g2fabd21
> >
> > .git/HEAD isn't a symlink any more (per default at least).
> 
> Ouch.  Although what Uwe says is all correct, we should not say
> "don't try kernel older than 2615-117a".  That makes bisect
> rather useless.
> 
> > You can rebuild git with USE_SYMLINK_HEAD if you really want the old
> > behaviour.
> 
> That probably is a sane thing to do.

Ok, thanks for the patch.
Petr, can you update our git package in time?