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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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First, check out a copy of the iPXE source tree: | First, check out a copy of the iPXE source tree: | ||
- | git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git | + | git clone https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe.git |
and verify that you are able to build iPXE: | and verify that you are able to build iPXE: |