Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756103Ab3CZRs1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:48:27 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.219.41]:60236 "EHLO mail-oa0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753955Ab3CZRsX (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:48:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130326162228.288994ef@laptop3> References: <20130326162228.288994ef@laptop3> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:48:23 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Git bisect problem From: Josh Boyer To: Mike Keehan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 30 On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Mike Keehan 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/