Important addendum to 4 that can throw someone their first time - Put the new test in a new file and don't commit it to the repo yet. You don't want it to disappear or conflict with old versions of the test file when bisect checks old commits.

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nixpulvis 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I've always liked having regression tests somewhat isolated anyway, so this works well with that.

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lloydatkinson 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is one annoying footgun. It would be great if git could ignore some special .bisect directory during the entire process. This way the script doesn’t need a load of ../..

	▲	trenchpilgrim 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Create a .bisect directory and stick a gitignore inside it that ignores the folder. Or, add .bisect/ to a global gitignore file.
	▲	1718627440 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You can checkout the bisect script commit in another directoy. Or use $git bisect run $(git show ...).