Re: Git bisect problem

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Tue Mar 26 2013 - 13:48:32 EST


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Mike Keehan <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to find out which update causes my 5G Wifi
> connection to time out when authenticating.
>
> Following the instructions in git help bisect, I
> git cloned the kernel, then git bisect start, and
> git bisect bad v3.9.0-rc2.
>
> This errors with :-
> fatal: Needed a single revision
> Bad rev input: v3.9.0-rc2
>
> and git bisect good v3.9.0-rc1 gives same error.
>
> How are you supposed to specify the revision?

It has to match a tag name if you're doing that. So it would be:

git bisect good v3.9-rc1; git bisect bad v3.9-rc2

Note the lack of .0.

josh
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