Hacker News Reader

I used bisect once in my life but it was extremely helpful. Without it I'd spend weeks trying to find regression. With bisect I found and fixed it in under 1 hour.

It's a command that is needed rarely but there's no replacement for it in some situations.

View on HN

I am confused by this, isn't Bisect just some git ergonomics with respect to flagging a checked out commit as a success failure and then checking out the next midway commit depending of if it was a success/failure to enable classic binary search?

It might be slightly more tedious but couldn't you just do the same thing manually and it would add just a couple minutes to the search and you would still save weeks? I like the ergonomics but only use it once every couple years.

Agree, probably could be done in any other VCS as well, including CVS. But only possible if you actually use VCS and use it properly.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com