How to find closest tag when using git-bisect?
Carlo Caione
carlo at caione.org
Thu Sep 8 07:36:51 EDT 2016
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Louie Lu <louie.lu at hopebaytech.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to git-bisect for debugging, but how can I find the tag I need?
>
> for example, I'm find the file change at maybe commit
> fc2bd799c7c79c84a59da6f9221370bc6f38c503, how to find the closest tag
> for this commit?
This is literally the first link you get on google when searching for
"closest tag for this commit"
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-describe
> and a anther question is, is every bisect need to recopmile all kernel
> code by `make`? or just need to build the thing I need?
Question is not clear. You need to recompile at each step.
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Carlo Caione
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