On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:12 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

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> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:32:30 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> 
> > Yes, it's all a bit mysterious.  I just look in the changelog, which was
> > pull edout of the git diff via various means.
> > 
> > See how
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc5/2.6.25-rc5-mm...
> > starts with 5813a19cba5735b629cdeb156863dab814759128 and ends with
> > 816543f9bf2fb77ff52083216a4537eb4e3058ec.  Use
> > 5813a19cba5735b629cdeb156863dab814759128 as good and
> > 816543f9bf2fb77ff52083216a4537eb4e3058ec as bad.
> 
> I *hope* I'm mis-reading Ingo's directions when I cut-n-pasted them -
> first I pulled down the two trees, tried to bisect, had it give me the
> "need a single revision" error, then I checked out a tree - and got a
> *different* funky opaque error message when I tried to bisect:

Try this:

echo "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git#for-akpm" > .git/branches/git-foo
git-fetch git-foo
git-checkout git-foo
git-bisect start
git-bisect good 968f7910e8d10e5273977248f3d89193b32e8c20
git-bisect bad c28550f4f68a894a3c05141762f388b5a14f33e3
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