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git bisect allows you to find which commit introduced a bug using a binary search. Start by bisecting a session by providing two commit references: a good commit before the bug, and a bad commit after the bug. Generally, the bad commit is HEAD. # start the git bisect session $ git bisect start ...

Imagine you are on the master branch and something is not working as expected (a regression was introduced), but you don't know where. All you know is, that is was working in the last release (which was e.g., tagged or you know the commit hash, lets take old-rel here). Git has help for you, finding...