Re: Questions about how to use git

[Kamil Dudka]

On Saturday 02 April 2011 19:54:48 Kai YU wrote:
>      Hi, I'm currently investigating how to fight software regressions with
> git bisect. Particularly, I want to use git bisect to help locate the
> #Bug12181 (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?12181). However, when I use "git
> checkout FINDUTILS_4_2_18-1" to switch to the version 4.2.18, it fails to
> compile. Moreover, I noticed that FINDUTILS_4_2_18-1.tar.gz (from
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/snapshot/FINDUTILS_4_2_18-1.
>tar.gz) is different from findutils-4.2.18.tar.gz (from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.2.18.tar.gz). My question is,
> how to get the code of findutils 4.2.18 (which can be successfully
> compiled) by git automatically?

My guess is that you are using an incompatible version of gnulib for the old 
release of findutils.  Did you try it with an equally old snapshot of gnulib?

Kamil