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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/214031

Have you ever used git bisect? If so, how did you use it? Did it help you find a problem which would otherwise be difficult to find? Story time, I guess?

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[–] truami 2 points 2 years ago

I certainly have! Although I can count on two hands how many times I've used it, it has proven to be extremely powerful when trying to pin-point changes that introduced non-trivial bugs. Specifically if the time-span of when the bug was introduced it is very useful to quickly sift through commit history.