Hi,
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git bisect good
> Bisecting: 2 revisions left to test after this
> [e7b0d26a86943370c04d6833c6edba2a72a6e240] sysfs: reinstate exclusion between method calls and attribute unregistration
>
> zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git bisect good
> Bisecting: 2 revisions left to test after this
> [b810cdfcf91d76f603fd48023aede48ced8e6bed] Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
The problem is that after the first git-bisect good, it looks like this:
g1 - b2 - b1 - M - B
/
g2 - b3
where both g1 and g2 are good, and B is bad. The bisection point is b1.
(Which makes sense, absolutely.)
After the second git-bisect good, it looks like this:
g3 - M - B
/
g2 - b3
and the bisection point is M.
Your problem, of course, is that it is not possible to pick a commit
_exactly_ in the middle. So, the number is just an _expected_ number of
revisions to test. I am not sure if it is necessary to make this clearer,
though, as I fully expect that you just said "What the heck" and continued
bisecting just fine.
Ciao,
Dscho
P.S.: if Momo's turtle thinks that your name contains no non-ASCIIs, why
should I?