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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs•de>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: help: bisect single file from repos
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:05:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1D27B6.7010900@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B1D1A5A.9060004@drmicha.warpmail.net>



Michael J Gruber schrieb:
> walter harms venit, vidit, dixit 07.12.2009 13:59:
>> Hi list,
>> i am new to git (using: git version 1.6.0.2).
> 
> though your git is not that new ;)
> 
>> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-07 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-07 12:59 help: bisect single file from repos walter harms
2009-12-07 15:08 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-12-07 16:05   ` walter harms [this message]
2009-12-08  8:17     ` Christian Couder
2009-12-08 13:41       ` walter harms
2009-12-08 18:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-09  1:28           ` SZEDER Gábor
2009-12-09  8:27             ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-12-09  9:45               ` SZEDER Gábor
2009-12-09 12:12                 ` walter harms

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