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Making git bisect more useful | Ovid [blogs.perl.org]
blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/07/making-git-bisect-more-useful.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PerlWeekly+%28Perl+Weekly+newsletter%29, posted 2014 by peter in automation git perl testing versioncontrol
If you've ever used git bisect, you know what an incredibly useful tool this is. It allows you to do a binary search through commits to find out which commit caused a particular error. Many people seem unaware of git bisect run ... which automates this even further, but it has a limitation: it won't let you find a particular error, it detects success or failure, that's all. So I decided to do something about that.