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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:18:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Daniel Walker wrote:
> 
> There's a compile failure during my bisect.

When that happens, you need to pick another commit to try than the one git 
selected for you automatically. You can do that by doing

	git bisect visualize

and select another commit somewhere fairly close to a mid-point, and try 
that with

	git reset --hard <commit-sha1>

instead.

		Linus
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