Comment # 30 on bug 898395 from Bit Juggler

As expected i got stuck. This is what i did as user (not root!):

git clone git://kernel.opensuse.org/kernel-source.git

~>cd kernel-source

~/kernel-source>./scripts/install-git-hooks
Installing git commit hooks.
Installing kernel-source.changes merge driver.
Installing symsets diff viewer.

~/kernel-source>git branch -r
  origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  origin/SLE11-SP3
  origin/SLE12
  origin/SLE12-GM
  origin/linux-next
  origin/master
  origin/openSUSE-12.3
  origin/openSUSE-13.1
  origin/openSUSE-13.2
  origin/packaging
  origin/scripts
  origin/stable
  origin/vanilla

~/kernel-source>git bisect start

~/kernel-source>git bisect good origin/openSUSE-12.3

~/kernel-source>git bisect bad origin/openSUSE-13.1
Bisecting: a merge base must be tested
[83a948a731f518dff988c7a15eb8614bf3eeee1b] scripts/tar-up*.sh: Fix for empty
kabi.tar.bz2

After this the directory /home/xxx/kernel-source was nearly empty:

~/kernel-source>ll
insgesamt 40
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx users 17987  1. Nov 17:37 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx users  4096  1. Nov 17:48 kernel-source
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx users 11897  1. Nov 17:40 README
drwxr-xr-x 3 xxx users  4096  1. Nov 17:40 scripts

~/kernel-source>./scripts/tar-up.sh
/home/xxx/kernel-source/scripts/tar-up-old.sh: Zeile 38: rpm/config.sh: Datei
oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
linux-.tar.bz2
Warning: could not find linux-.tar.bz2, trying to create it from git
No linux-2.6 git tree found (try setting the LINUX_GIT variable)

~/kernel-source>git status
HEAD losgel�st bei 83a948a
Sie sind gerade bei einer bin�ren Suche, gestartet von Branch 'master'.
  (benutzen Sie "git bisect reset", um zum urspr�nglichen Branch
zur�ckzukehren)

nichts zu committen, Arbeitsverzeichnis unver�ndert

So what's wrong?