Re: FYI, git output messages are being used by other tooling

[Junio C Hamano]

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just want to let you folks know that ktest.pl (tools/testing/ktest/ in
> the Linux kernel repository) parses the output of git to display the first
> bad commit found in an automated git bisect.
>
> The output was recently updated via: 0c0f93e7fa64 ("bisect: print bisect
> terms in single quotes") which made ktest.pl fail to find the bad commit.
>
> The change is being addressed:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261009-ktest-git-bisect-v1-1-1d1428f6cbf4@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> But I figured it would be good for you to know about this dependency.

Shouldn't the script instead seeing "git show bisect/bad" instead?