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Thanks for clarifying.

> So people can intuitively check some version in between and do bisect that way, exploiting their knowledge to cut some steps

If you have a hypothesis you hold with enough weight to validate, bisecting in general (let along git bisect) isn't even in the picture yet. The strategy really only enters the picture when you've exhausted any strong hunches and need to debug more systematically.

> and do bisect that way

In context you're not actually describing bisecting.

But taking 'bisect' here as 'bisect': git automates bisecting through the commit history to a greater (with `run`) or lesser (without it) extent. Once you've paid that 15-minute fixed cost of familiarization, `git bisect` is strictly less time- and cognitive-energy-intensive than the manual alternative.




I understand what bisect does. I even used it a few times. I'm jut saying it's very rarely useful in my experience (YMMV).




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