On Saturday 28 December 2013, Jason Cooper wrote: >Hey Gene, > >On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 09:41:40PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Hey guys, I need to setup a bisect using git but the man pages aren't >> giving me what I need to know. Mainly I have no clue what the URL for >> the git repos looks like, I've been downloading and building the >> tarballs from kernel.org all this time. > >Looks like you now have your driving problem to learn git. ;-) > >> Assuming I start with fresh git pull of 3.8.2 which worked, > >Here's where the wheels come off the cart. You aren't cloning a specific >revision/tag/version. 'git clone' makes a clone (hence the name) of the >entire tree's history. Once you have a clone on your local disk, you >can then checkout _any_ version you want. You have *all* of them. This >is what 'git bisect' will be doing for you. > >> working toward 3.8.3 which doesn't, and I have the disk space chowned >> to me, what is the exact syntax to pull a clone of 3.8.2, and then do >> a bisect to 3.8.3 where the microcode update for an AMD phenom doesn't >> work. Skipping fwd to 3.12.0 it still isn't working. > >The version tags you are referring to are from the linux-stable tree, so >we'll clone that one instead of Linus'. > >So, something like this: > >$ git clone \ >git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git \ >~/linux-stable
Looks like its working. >$ cd ~/linux-stable >$ git checkout v3.8.3 >$ git bisect start >$ git bisect bad >$ git bisect good v3.8.2 >$ ... > >And now you iterate through as the manpage suggests, until it narrows it >down to a single commit. Once there, report to this list with '[BUG >BISECTED] ...' in the subject line. > >hth, Yes, I think I can nail it now. One final clarification, do I use a .config geared more to my machine, or am I supposed to do a "make allmodconfig?" I haven't done this in a while and I'm still going thru the xconfig, stripping out modules for hardware I don't have, but if I just transfer the old ones in, they should work but will be building about 1400 modules extra. I just got the 2nd message about marking the subject line, can do, thanks. Thanks Jason. >Jason. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> BOFH excuse #8: static buildup A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
