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Have you ever used git bisect? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by canpolat@programming.dev to c/programming@beehaw.org

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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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[–] TheCulturedOtaku@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I've used it only once to find a bug in a section of code at a company I was working for that both me and the other engineer I was working with did not know the history of. We were able to triangulate effectively the root of the pre-existing bug, and kind of how it was introduced, because of the surrounding history. Very useful tool for this purpose, albeit one that I use very infrequently.