Git Bisect

Git bisect mode

The git bisect method is the kind of tool we’ll use about once every six months, but when we use it, we’ll be totally thrilled that it exists.

Isolation commits for debugging

The git bisect is indicated when something has gone wrong in our code, and we believe it to be the result of a code change but we cannot isolate which change resulted in the problem. The git bisect's goal is to isolate the commit where the change occurred.

Note: Use git bisect to track down mysterious failures in our code when we have no idea how they were inserted.

We start using git bisect with two commands:

$ git

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