Hello, zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ echo 0 > 0 zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ git add 0 zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ git commit -m 0 Created initial commit fa8382e1b0a75f2abd5b8961ba88caa65e6e0ddc 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 0 zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ echo 1 > 1 zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ git add 1 zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ git commit -m 1 Created commit bf00881b13efd325f87899f0fd072566629aedb0 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 1 zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ git tag -m tag tag zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ git bisect start zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ git bisect good HEAD^ zeisberg@cassiopeia:~/gsrc/test$ git bisect bad tag Bisecting: 1 revisions left to test after this [bf00881b13efd325f87899f0fd072566629aedb0] 1 Actually the case is already clear here. But bisect fails to detect that because it doesn't see that tag^{commit} is bad, only tag itself. --- 8< --- Bisect: convert revs given to good and bad to commits Without this the rev could be (e.g.) a tag and then the condition to end the bisect might fail and you have to check the already known to be bad revision once more. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- git-bisect.sh | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh index b1c3a6b..dbce0df 100755 --- a/git-bisect.sh +++ b/git-bisect.sh @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ bisect_bad() { 0) rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify HEAD) ;; 1) - rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$1") ;; + rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$1^{commit}") ;; *) usage ;; esac || exit @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ bisect_good() { esac for rev in $revs do - rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$rev") || exit + rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$rev^{commit}") || exit echo "$rev" >"$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/good-$rev" echo "# good: "$(git-show-branch $rev) >>"$GIT_DIR/BISECT_LOG" echo "git-bisect good $rev" >>"$GIT_DIR/BISECT_LOG" -- 1.5.1.rc1.27.g1d848 -- Uwe Kleine-König http://www.google.com/search?q=1+newton+in+kg*m+%2F+s%5E2 - 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