Subject: Re: git-bisect annoyances

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:56:42 -0700

Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]> writes:

>  dione:~/linux-tmp4> git-bisect start
>  fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref
>  won't bisect on seeked tree
>
>  #
>  # Hm. It's not a symbolic ref, and git-bisect just wont do it.

Enough people were unhappy with this historical wart and we stopped
refusing to "bisect on seeked tree" since b577bb9 (Eliminate confusing
"won't bisect on seeked tree" failure, 2008-02-23); you should find it as
part of the 1.5.5 release.

The disturbing "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" is still there even though
it should be harmless.  The message should be squelched.