Re: kernel git bisect question

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 01:31:53PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> On 03/10/2011 04:54 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:27:00PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> >> Between git bisect [good | bad ]s should I always "make clean" or can I
> >> count on the build system to take care of everything properly?
> > 
> 
> I'm trying to bisect between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36. What have I done wrong?
> Here is exactly what I've done. Why after my second "git bisect bad" do
> I get a Makefile for 2.6.35-rc1 and then after the fourth I get a Makefile
> for 2.6.34??

The development is not linear.
So you see a commit developed on top of 2.6.34 that was included in 2.6.35.
This is normal.

	Sam
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