• darkpanda@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Learn to use git bisect. If you have unit tests, which of course you should, it can save you so much time finding weird breakages.

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      8 months ago

      With automated CI, I’ve had very few times where bisect is useful. Either the bug was introduced 1-2 commits ago, or it’s always been there and the exact commit is irrelevant to the solution, since you just fix it forward.