Re: Git bisect does not find commit introducing the bug

From

Oleg Taranenko <olegtaranenko@gmail.com>

Date

Feb 20, 2017, 13:50 UTC

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> Anyway, I don't think it is feasible to weaken the assumption that there
> is only one transition from 'old' ('good') to 'new' ('bad'); this is
> what allows O(log(N)) operations.  See bisection method of root finding,
> that is finding zeros of a continuous function.

git bisect start --bisect-strategy=missing-feature

by default current state is being used.

git config value would be also useful.

Oleg