Article 5SX80 [$] Stochastic bisection in Git

[$] Stochastic bisection in Git

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Regressions are no fun; among other things, finding the source of aregression among thousands of changes can be a needle-in-the-haystack sortof problem. The gitbisect command can help; it is a (relatively) easy way to sift through large numbers of commits to find the one that introduces a regression. When itworks well, it can quickly point out the change that causes a specificproblem. Bisection is not a perfect tool, though; it can go badly wrong insituations where a bug cannot be reliably reproduced. In an attempt tomake bisection more useful in such cases, Jan Kara is proposing to add "stochasticbisection" support to Git.
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