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git-bisect is part of the git CM software. It is used to find which change broke something.

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How to use git bisect?

I have read some articles saying that git bisect is awesome. However, I'm not a native speaker and I can't understand why it's awesome. Could someone please demonstrate with some code sample: How to use it? Is it just like svn blame?
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Undoing a git bisect mistake

I'm doing a non-automated git bisect via command line. All is going well until I accidentally hit return on the wrong line in my command history, and rather than running the test, I run 'git bisect good' (or bad). Oops - I don't yet know if this…
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How to Abort Git Bisect

I started my git bisect by specifying good and bad revisions but I don't think they registered. Additionally, as I am attempting to specify git bisect good and bad, I don't think git is doing anything. I would like to abort the entire bisect so that…
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Why does git-bisect have to be run from the top level directory of the working tree?

If one tries to run any of the git-bisect commands from anywhere other than the root directory of the repository, one is told: You need to run this command from the toplevel of the working tree. Why is that? I know of no other git command that has…
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Git bisect with merged commits

I have a history that looks like this: * 3830e61 Add data escaping. (Bad) * 0f5e148 Improve function for getting page template. * aaf8dc5 Merge branch 'navigation' |\ | * 3e667f8 Add icons. | * 43a07b1 Add menu styles. …
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How do you get git bisect to ignore merged branches?

I'm aware that git bisect is branch-aware by design, so that if between good commit, G, and bad commit, B, you merged in a branch, it needs to take those changes into consideration as well, as the bug may be contained in the branch. In my case I…
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How to `git bisect` only on one branch's commits?

In a project I am currently working on, we keep each feature its own brach and merge it back to master when the feature is ready. The commits inside each feature branch might include a lot of "WIP" and breaking functionality of other features until…
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How does git bisect skip choose the next commit to try?

When using git bisect, one can run git bisect skip to mark the current commit as being an unbuildable / untestable one, to try and get Git to pick some other commit to test instead. How does Git decide which commit to try after a git bisect skip?…
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How can I cut down a git bisect run using file paths?

I'm using git bisect to find a failure inducing commit. However, a lot of the commits in the range are definately irrelevant (because they are commits to the documentation or to unit tests). I'd like to make git bisect automatically skip commits…
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git bisect says Bisecting: a merge base must be tested

I did a git bisect and got the result Bisecting: a merge base must be tested [bbdaf1111eea5365c0c94d6045d6263aab718925] Fix display bug with main-stage How can I proceed?
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bisect everything, from initial commit

Say I have a small project with a very fast test script, and I just want to bisect everything, from the initial commit to the curret commit. How can I do that? To clarify, I don't want to waste time identifying a commit that is good and a commit…
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Changes made by merge commits not found by `git bisect` or `git log -S --all`

I made a fix to a file, and committed it to my git repository. Some time later, I found that it had regressed. I wanted to know in which commit the fix had been taken out, so I tried git bisect and git log --all -S TERM, where "TERM" was a string…
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git bisect doesn't work, no output

I tried to use git bisect lately, but it just didn't work. The tree remained in master and I saw no output from git bisect whatsoever. Here's what I've tried: git bisect start git bisect bad # no output, tried a couple of times git bisect good #…
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How do I run git bisect only on commits that changed a certain file?

I have a bug that have been introduced a long time ago, and testing for it is painful. However, I strongly suspect that changes which introduced the bug happened in one particular source code file. Can I run git bisect on a sub-set of commits that…
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Doing a git bisect and one of the commits doesn't build

I'm trying to find a problem in the app I'm working on and I started to do a git bisect. There are 9 steps to the bisect so 256+ commits that could potentially cause this issue. However, one of the git bisect steps checked out a commit that wouldn't…
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