> Could you try running the test twice when you bisect ? > This way bisecting should give you the real first bad commit. I re-ran it several times, and also manually -- there were times it'd succeed 6 times in a row before failing. Weird. Finally, the bisect came down to: ramune/lycaeum:git: git bisect good c74d9acf20ba0c69bbd67c5b0bb3bd3c2349cebe is first bad commit commit c74d9acf20ba0c69bbd67c5b0bb3bd3c2349cebe Author: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 5 03:21:47 2007 -0800 git-svn: fix dcommit clobbering when committing a series of diffs Modifying the failing t9106-git-svn-dcommit-clobber-series.sh test to add touch statements as so: test x\"\`sed -n -e 4p < file\`\" = x4444 && touch '/tmp/eleven' && test x\"\`sed -n -e 7p < file\`\" = x7777 && touch '/tmp/twelve' && test x\"\`sed -n -e 58p < file\`\" = x5588 && touch '/tmp/thirteen' && test x\"\`sed -n -e 61p < file\`\" = x6611 Line 52 was the culprit: test x\"\`sed -n -e 58p < file\`\" = x5588 && -- DN Daniel - 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