Git:Bisect

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A Git command that uses the binary search algorithm to quickly find the commit that introduced a bug.

In the end, you use git bisect

• In the end, you use git bisect | GeekNews
  • [Original] At the end you use git bisect | Kevin Jivani
• The concept of binary search is used not only in interview questions but also in Git, a real development tool
• In a large monorepo, when tests suddenly fail, the cause can be hard to trace from logs alone
• A colleague marked a good commit and a bad commit and ran an automated search with git bisect, pinpointing the problem commit where the bug began
• At each step, a script is run to automatically classify commits by test result, identifying the first failing commit
• Built on the principle of binary search, git bisect is a powerful tool for quickly tracking down the cause of bugs in large codebases

See also

• git

Favorite site

• bisect - I want to find the first commit that introduced a bug among many commits