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Re:Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bise... by svag on Thursday July 29, 2021 @03:42AM (#27993940)
I haven't used `git bisect` before, but a month ago I used it to find a bug in the RTSP part of VLC, https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/25812.

It's one of those utilities that makes your life easier in so many levels.

I was wandering if there was no `git bisect` how difficult and time consuming the bug hunting would be.

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Re:Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bise... by omegalulw on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:13AM (#27994101)
A hacky script to emulate git bisect should be fairly easy to set up. It's not much more complicated than writing standard binary search.
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Re:Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bise... by exikyut on Friday July 30, 2021 @02:06AM (#28004939)
Cool. Now I'm (benignly) curious what's keeping you on VLC 3.0.x...
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