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Bisecting to find the root cause is always going to be a better strategy if you know there is a good version.

I really recommend adopting this strategy.

Bisecting can be a good strategy. But you need to look through 100 commits. I need to look through 5-8 PR diffs. Everyone thinks they have the best strategy because they get results with it. Anyway, I'll try your strategy if mine is failing.

No, it does a binary search over the 100 commits. You would probably hit the issue before you hit 7 or 10 commits depending on how lucky you are.

You should play around with git bisect - seems like you've not used it much. It's a life changer when it comes to finding what broke.

Don't forget, a project like Terraform is too big. No one person can know how the whole system works. Trying to look through PRs as a means of debugging is a fools errand. You have to take on a different mindset when working on these large codebases.

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