From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git-bisect annoyances Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:56:42 -0700 Message-ID: <7vhce9szmt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080409101428.GA2637@elte.hu> <20080410114739.GA15229@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 11 07:58:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JkCH1-0003fk-Hl for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:58:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753192AbYDKF5J (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:57:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753199AbYDKF5I (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:57:08 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:38094 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752951AbYDKF5H (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:57:07 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614C62F36; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:57:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1932F35; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:57:03 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080410114739.GA15229@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:47:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ingo Molnar writes: > dione:~/linux-tmp4> git-bisect start > fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref > won't bisect on seeked tree > > # > # Hm. It's not a symbolic ref, and git-bisect just wont do it. Enough people were unhappy with this historical wart and we stopped refusing to "bisect on seeked tree" since b577bb9 (Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure, 2008-02-23); you should find it as part of the 1.5.5 release. The disturbing "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" is still there even though it should be harmless. The message should be squelched.