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Diff debugging (martinfowler.com)

submitted 11 months ago by canpolat to c/git

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[–] canpolat 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's explained at the end (Revisions). Fowler is probably looking for a general term that can be used to describe this specific way of debugging. Since he is aware of git bisect (and I'm sure he knows about hg bisect) there must be a reason he is not preferring "bisect debugging," for example.

Edit: The term diff has a clear link with version control. bisect is not that obvious. It may be ambiguous/vague in debugging context. I would still call it "bisect debugging."