Carl Worth <cworth@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This error message is very confusing---it doesn't tell the user > anything about how to fix the situation. And the actual fix > for the situation ("git bisect reset") does a checkout of a > potentially random branch, (compared to what the user wants to > be on for the bisect she is starting). The message itself refers to a Cogito "feature" and I suspect that removing the check and refusal would confuse Cogito. While I think the patch itself is Ok for us, we may want to wait a bit for a while. until Cogito users all die out. - 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