Re: git bisect with history manipulation

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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> You can try yet another approach, namely rebase v2.6.15..v2.6.18 on top of
> your patch-series applied to v2.6.15, and bisect that.

Oooh. 

Yeah, it's a great idea, but likely not practical (or even possible).

git-rebase really wants a linear set of patches to rebase, which you 
definitely don't have for that big history. In fact, even if rebase did 
the full history rebasing, if later history did a merge of an earlier 
thing (ie if the patch-series that you're trying to rebase onto was based 
on something that wasn't an "epoch tip", but that was in the middle of 
intertwined history), you'd really be screwed.

Also, let's face it, rebasing isn't _that_ fast. So trying to rebase huge 
swaths of code would be painful as hell, even if it was a nice linear 
series.

But yes, for simpler situations, you could try to switch the problem 
around like you suggest.

		Linus
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