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| - | ====== Finding a bug using bisection ====== | + | ====== Finding a bug using git-bisect ====== |
| ''git-bisect'' is a powerful tool for quickly tracking down the precise change that introduced a bug in iPXE. If you are encountering a problem with the [[:download|latest version]] of iPXE, and you know that an older version of iPXE does not have the same problem, then you can use ''git-bisect''. | ''git-bisect'' is a powerful tool for quickly tracking down the precise change that introduced a bug in iPXE. If you are encountering a problem with the [[:download|latest version]] of iPXE, and you know that an older version of iPXE does not have the same problem, then you can use ''git-bisect''. | ||
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| If you have followed the process correctly, then this is the commit that introduced the bug. You can now [[:contact|contact the developers]] with details of your bug, including the "first bad commit" (''7e1b1d6145a36ae7ad1c58663c7116f96fada1f9'' in the above example). | If you have followed the process correctly, then this is the commit that introduced the bug. You can now [[:contact|contact the developers]] with details of your bug, including the "first bad commit" (''7e1b1d6145a36ae7ad1c58663c7116f96fada1f9'' in the above example). | ||
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| ===== Tidying up ===== | ===== Tidying up ===== | ||
