git-bisect is part of the git CM software. It is used to find which change broke something.
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How to get rid of "refs/bisect/bad" branches in Git
I have the following in my ~/.gitconfig (this is only here to help you understand what I'm looking at):
[alias]
lg = log --graph --all --pretty=format:'%Cred%h %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset - %s %C(yellow)%d %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit…
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How do I get the current "status" of a git bisect?
I am making some personal modifications to oh-my-git (shows the git status on the terminal) and I would like to display the "status" of the current bisect. Specifically, I want to get the number of remaining commits and approximate number of steps…
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Is it possible to mark a git commit as work-in-progress?
I'm aware that there are various opinions and philosophies about whether or not all commits on the master branch should leave the project in a valid, working state. I'm not asking for these opinions.
For the sake of argument, let's assume that…
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How to use git bisect: Using unit tests for determining the errorneous commit?
I'm new to git and just discovered "git bisect". How is it generally used when you can check for the error using a newly written unit test (that wasn't there beforehand)?
Say we have a repository containing unit tests, but - as so often - they…
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git-bisect but for N repos
There is a bug in my code which can be easily reproduced since a test fails.
Up to now I used git-bisect in such cases, but it is only useful if there is only one git repo.
In my case there are 7.
Is there a way to do something like git-bisect but…
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Attempting to start git bisect gives 'fatal: invalid reference:...'
Attempting to start a bisect with the following command,
git bisect start
causes Git to respond:
fatal: invalid reference: atrium-3018
What is the cause of this and how can I fix it?
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How to resume a git bisect
Suppose that I'm going through a git bisect, and after running a git bisect bad command, my git bisect gets interrupted like so:
$ git bisect bad
Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 1 step)
error: Your local changes to the…
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Find where f(x) changes in a list, with bisection (in Python)
Reasoning: I'm trying to implement, in Python, something similar to git bisect, but with basically a list of directories.
I have a (long) list of version numbers like this:
['1.0', '1.14', '2.3', '3.1', '4']
I have a function works() which takes a…
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git-bisect, but for N repos
Our software is modular and I have about 20 git repos in one project.
If a test fails, it is sometimes hard to find the matching commit since several developers work on these 20 repos.
I know the test worked yesterday and fails reproachable…
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Git: Equivalent of `--full-history` for `git bisect` and `git blame`
I've been using Git heavily for about 7 years. A few days ago I found a behavior that surprised me. I found git log, git blame and git bisect to exhibit this weird behavior. A friend let me know about the --full-history flag to git log that solved…
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git bisect with additional patch
Let's say I have these revisions:
rev 1 introduces bug #1
rev 2 possibly introduces bug #2
rev 3 possibly introduces bug #2
rev 4 possibly introduces bug #2
rev 5 fixes bug #1
To verify where bug #2 occured, bug #1 needs to be fixed.
Can the…
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Is there a script that provides the equivalent to git-bisect for Perforce (p4)?
The git-bisect provides hooks to perform a binary search on revisions and figure out which change broke the design. Is there an equivalent script for Perforce? I did SO and Google searches with no luck.
Update Mar 1 2010: As Douglas Leeder…
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Make Git Bisect do a force checkout or otherwise overwrite local changes
I'm git bisecting a Unity3D repository and every time I open the Unity3D editor to check if the current revision is good or bad, Unity3D dirties a few files, forcing me to do a hard reset before continuing with the bisection.
This is because if I…
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Is a more targeted recovery from git bisect mistakes possible?
I am aware that it is possible to fix a git bisect session via git bisect log and git bisect replay as described in the answers to this question.
However, when I mess up a bisect session, that's likely just a single wrong decision, and I would like…
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Similar trick to git bisect WITHIN a commit
With git bisect we can zoom in on when a problem might have been introduced between commits.
I was wondering if there is also a way to have git go through (combinations) of files within a single commit, so you can figure out which file / part is…
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