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A bug appeared sometime in your last 1,000 commits. What does git bisect do?

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  1. Deletes every commit after the bug
  2. Splits the repo into two copies
  3. Binary searches the commits to find the bad one

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  1. Git documentation: git-bisect git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect Checked 2026-10-10.

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