2.3 Bisection exercise - CodeRefinery 2023 Sep
Channel: CodeRefinery
Date: 2023-09-20

Demonstration of git-bisect from the "Inspecting history" exercise.  Discussion + demo of the exercise.  We didn't do this in the main exercise.

https://coderefinery.github.io/git-intro/archaeology/#finding-out-when-something-broke-changed-with-git-bisect

00:00 What is git bisect?
01:17 CATS
04:13 § Starting the exercise
05:50 § Bisecting manually
12:46 Finding the bad commit, discussion
15:19 § Bisecting with a script, figuring out how to test automatically
19:32 Making the script
20:19 Running the script
22:00 § Final discussion

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