"Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Why does git-bisect need to be ran from the top level of the working > tree? It sources git-sh-setup.sh which sets GIT_DIR, which > git-bisect.sh then appears to consistently use. Is there a reason for > needing to be at the top-level, or is this an old and redundant > message? A wild guess. Imagine if you start from a subdirectory foo/ but the directory did not exist in the older part of the history of the project. When bisect needs to check out a revision that was older than the first revision that introduced that subdirectory, what should happen? Worse yet, if "foo" was a file in the older part of the history, what should happen? -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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