On Tue, May 02, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html