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Re: RockStarProgrammer - Automating Git Bisection for Rails Apps

Motorhomes — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:54:19 -0000

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Re: RockStarProgrammer - Automating Git Bisection for Rails Apps

Canvas Stretching Machine — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:22:29 -0000

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Re: RockStarProgrammer - Automating Git Bisection for Rails Apps

dustin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:33:47 -0000

Hey, great idea. That seems a lot less messy than my stash script. Thanks.

Basically, that'd be something like this (assuming working on master with a bug that didn't exist about 50 changesets back):

git checkout -b findbug
[write and commit tests]
git rebase -i HEAD~51
[move test changeset to the top]

Then you should be able to do the easy case as described above.

Re: RockStarProgrammer - Automating Git Bisection for Rails Apps

Justin George — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:49:36 -0000

Protip: if you need to go back in time to find a bug, but the test isn't there, you can easily rebase it back into the tree in the past, and then discard that branch later. Saves having to write a script for it.

This also works with integration testing, so you can track down your HTTP bug with the same test you use to prevent regression in the future (needless to say you need to write regression tests either way...)