Subject: Re: is smarter bisect possible?

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:59:33 +0200

Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz schrieb:
> I have such problem. Linus kernel tree merged some feature 
> (94e0fb086fc5663c38bbc0fe86d698be8314f82f) that was developed in .31rc9 era.
> 
> Current Linus kernel tree with that feature merged shows some regression. 
> Tree just before that merge doesn't show regression.
> 
> Now if I start to bisect just that feature (good 
> b7f21bb2e23b4fec16b448a34889f467465be659, bad 
> 94e0fb086fc5663c38bbc0fe86d698be8314f82f) then git gets me whole tree back 
> to .31rc9 era which... doesn't show any problems.
> 
> This means that only combined current Linus tree and that feature shows a 
> problem.

Try this:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#bisect-merges

-- Hannes