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Re: Why can't I use git-bisect to find the first *good* commit?

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Andrew Garber <andrew@andrewgarber.com>
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Mar 28, 2011, 18:12 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

> Then which commit do you specify as "good"?

Any ancestral commit *on the same branch* which is know to be working. Isn't the whole point of git bisect is to do binary search through time? It only makes sense to me to use it on a single branch at a time. Perhaps you could give a concrete example of where you could use it for multiple branches simultaneously?

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