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Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs by anticodon on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @03:16AM (#44644069)
I used bisect once in my life but it was extremely helpful. Without it I'd spend weeks trying to find regression. With bisect I found and fixed it in under 1 hour.

It's a command that is needed rarely but there's no replacement for it in some situations.

Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs by pclowes on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @02:41PM (#44651321)
I am confused by this, isn't Bisect just some git ergonomics with respect to flagging a checked out commit as a success failure and then checking out the next midway commit depending of if it was a success/failure to enable classic binary search?

It might be slightly more tedious but couldn't you just do the same thing manually and it would add just a couple minutes to the search and you would still save weeks? I like the ergonomics but only use it once every couple years.

Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs by anticodon on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @03:32AM (#44656643)
Agree, probably could be done in any other VCS as well, including CVS. But only possible if you actually use VCS and use it properly.