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the "bisect" subcommand of Git or the "bisect" module of Python

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How do I stop git bisect?

I tried git bisect a while ago and it helped me well, but apparently I didn't stop it. When I do git status I still get: You are currently bisecting. (use "git bisect reset" to get back to the original branch) I don't really want to reset to…
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How could I use git bisect to find the first GOOD commit?

I have the following problem: the version at master works fine the version of the last tag before master (say last) has a bug a colleague needs a patch for his last revision for that certain bug Okay. Let's ask our friend git bisect for the…
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How to use bisect.insort_left with a key?

Doc's are lacking an example...How do you use bisect.insort_left)_ based on a key? Trying to insert based on key. bisect.insort_left(data, ('brown', 7)) puts insert at data[0]. From docs... bisect.insort_left(a, x, lo=0, hi=len(a))     Insert x…
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Run two commands during git bisect run

I would essentially like to do git bisect run 'bundle && bundle exec cucumber'. I want to do this on the commandline - I don't want to write a shell script.
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What is Mercurial bisect good for?

I've been reading about hg bisect and its interesting to be able to know which revision introduced a bug, but I'd like to know what people use this information for. The only thing I can think of is trying to narrow down which dates might need a data…
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Finding first appearance of text in Mercurial repository

I have a Mercurial repository with ~800 changesets and I need to find the first changeset where the word Example appeared. The word appears inside a .php file and not on a commit comment etc. What is the quickest/easiest way to do that?
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Java's equivalent to bisect in python

Is there an equivalent in Java for Python's bisect module? With Python's bisect you can do array bisection with directions. For instance bisect.bisect_left does: Locate the proper insertion point for item in list to maintain sorted order. The…
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What is the complexity of bisect algorithm?

I wrote code to understand which of them is faster when it comes to search an element in a list. It turns out to be bisect. What I do not understand is what is complexity of bisect algorithm and does it use Van Emde Boas tree? #python inbuilt list…
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How can you get the current state (history of good/bad revisions) of a bisect from mercurial

When doing an hg bisect in eclipse, I like that I can see all of the bads and goods I've marked in the past. Is there a way to get that information at the command line?
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Is it possible to use git bisect on git tags

I love using git bisect especially for solving regression bugs. However, I realized that it can also be too granular: it points out the exact commit message, what if I simply would like to know in what release did a certain bug happen (by a release…
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What git commit practice is better?

I truly believe that to have one commit on one issue is a good practice. I'm sure I read it somewhere in an article like “Best practices”. As such, my workflow has been the following: For a new issue, I create a new local branch with git checkout…
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bisect.insort complexity not as expected

trying to find the most optimal data structure in python3 for a frotier problem i have to develop have just realised that the complexity of using the module bisect to make a real time ordered insert is not O(nlog n) as it should be and grows…
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python bisect.insort(list, value)

does this python module computes an ordered insert into a data structure or it inserts and then sort? been struggling with this kind of thing in python since developing an algorithm in which I have to keep in mind memmory issues thus need a way to…
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How to resume a git bisect

Suppose that I'm going through a git bisect, and after running a git bisect bad command, my git bisect gets interrupted like so: $ git bisect bad Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 1 step) error: Your local changes to the…
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Find where f(x) changes in a list, with bisection (in Python)

Reasoning: I'm trying to implement, in Python, something similar to git bisect, but with basically a list of directories. I have a (long) list of version numbers like this: ['1.0', '1.14', '2.3', '3.1', '4'] I have a function works() which takes a…
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