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> I originally posted this page on 2004-06-01... Diff debugging isn't a term that's caught on much in the industry, but I haven't seen a another term generally
by jkaptur 3y ago
> I originally posted this page on 2004-06-01... Diff debugging isn't a term that's caught on much in the industry, but I haven't seen a another term generally used to describe it.
I can't speak to 2004, but these days "bisect" is the standard term in my circles (even when we're not actually using git and its bisect command).
It would be interesting to know whether git was the first to associate that word with this activity... especially given it's atrocious naming of everything else :P
- ReleaseCandidat 3y agoBisecting an interval has been in use in mathematics quite some time before the existence of Git. Bolzano proved (his version of) the intermediate value theorem in 1817, but it has been used in calculations for _way_ longer.