Ask HN: How often do you use Git bisect?

by mkchoi212on 6/17/2021, 3:19:37 PM with 5 comments
  • by swileyon 6/21/2021, 2:38:27 AM

    I feel like if I committed locally more often and merged before pushing I would use it way more often.

  • by yen223on 6/17/2021, 6:28:21 PM

    Honestly? Almost never.

    I guess more traditional methods of debugging code are good enough to identify where problematic issues are, and git blame is enough to identify the offending commit.

  • by otagekkion 6/17/2021, 8:48:48 PM

    I have used it exactly once 3 years ago to track down a regression and find the offending commits, while having no knowledge of the code base or architecture.

  • by zzo38computeron 6/18/2021, 5:15:09 AM

    I don't use git, although fossil also includes a bisect command. However, I have never used it so far.

  • by aprdmon 6/21/2021, 2:37:16 AM

    I used it exactly once.