git-bisect Questions

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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 co...
Norvun asked 17/7, 2020 at 14:6

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I'm doing a git bisect, and I've found a few good and bad commits so far, which I can confirm by running git bisect log. However, if I run git log for my branch git log --graph --decorate=full orig...
Bestead asked 8/5, 2023 at 3:54

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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...
Etty asked 21/12, 2011 at 18:45

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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?
Schlieren asked 3/1, 2015 at 0:1

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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 opinion...
Lula asked 18/1, 2016 at 10:31

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I have read some articles saying that git bisect is awesome. However, I can't understand why it's awesome. How do I use it? Is it just like svn blame?
Roundelay asked 17/1, 2011 at 12:22

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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 b...
Kerato asked 28/4, 2015 at 21:13

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In some cases during a git bisect session, testing a particular commit takes quite long (for instance, because I have to build a full release package and deploy it on a particularly strange machine...
Marley asked 5/7, 2010 at 14:50

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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 ...
Dementia asked 12/4, 2011 at 15:59

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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. ...
Valenevalenka asked 18/9, 2012 at 15:5

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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 an...
Headliner asked 26/6, 2014 at 12:50

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Assuming a patch was created from a specific commit in the past, and no longer applies to HEAD. How can I find either the first or better the last commit in the history of HEAD, where this patch a...
Era asked 28/5, 2014 at 5:19

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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 th...
Blur asked 18/2, 2018 at 10:35

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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 (ro...
Throstle asked 20/12, 2017 at 12:51

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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...
Holle asked 2/8, 2017 at 10:39

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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?
Kaoliang asked 14/7, 2017 at 16:15

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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"...
Ireful asked 27/11, 2013 at 10:56

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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',...
Economically asked 8/2, 2017 at 17:23

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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...
Iver asked 9/12, 2016 at 9:19

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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...
Tailpiece asked 6/6, 2016 at 21:42

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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 c...
Siegbahn asked 15/3, 2015 at 0:10

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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 ab...
Furr asked 20/4, 2016 at 9:58

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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 d...
Jaborandi asked 8/4, 2016 at 10:58

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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 ...
Biogeochemistry asked 28/5, 2015 at 12:28

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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 ti...
Coed asked 9/7, 2014 at 15:32

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