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Poll: Git users, do you use git bisect?
Git bisect is a powerful tool. Do you use it?
If so, please let us know in the comments what you've used it for, e.g. to track down a tricky bug. If not, well, why not?
- cjbprime 13y agoIt's powerful, but mostly for codebases you're totally unfamiliar with. Usually there's a compile error or traceback that you can simply understand, and that's obviously a faster solution. The best use case I can think of for "git bisect" is hangs during kernel boot: you can get your system booting over the network and set up with a remotely switchable power supply, and then update the network-boot kernel automatically to be the next stage in the bisect based on whether the system booted successfully, or hung. .. other than that, just use the error message. :-)