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Git - git-bisect Documentation

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This command uses a binary search algorithm to find which commit in your project’s history introduced a bug. You use it by first telling it a "bad" commit that is known to contain the bug, and a "good" commit that is known to be before the bug was introduced. Then git bisect picks a commit between those two endpoints and asks you whether the selected commit is "good" or "bad". It continues narrowing down the range until it finds the exact commit that introduced the change. In fact, git bisect can be used to find the commit that changed any property of your project; e.g., the commit that fixed a bug, or the commit that caused a benchmark’s performance to improve. To support this more general usage, the terms "old" and "new" can be used in place of "good" and "bad", or you can choose your own terms. See section "Alternate terms" below for more information. As an example, suppose you are trying to find the commit that broke a feature that was known to work in version v2.6.13-rc2 of your p

Git - git-bisect Documentation English ▾ English Français 日本語 Português (Brasil) Русский Svenska українська мова 简体中文 Topics ▾ Setup and Config git config help bugreport Credential helpers Getting and Creating Projects init clone Basic Snapshotting add status diff commit notes restore reset rm mv Branching and Merging branch checkout switch merge mergetool log stash tag worktree Sharing and Updating Projects fetch pull push remote submodule Inspection and Comparison show log diff difftool range-diff shortlog describe Patching apply cherry-pick diff rebase revert Debugging bisect blame grep Ema

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