Undoing a git bisect mistake
GitGit BisectGit Problem Overview
I'm doing a non-automated git bisect via command line. All is going well until I accidentally hit return on the wrong line in my command history, and rather than running the test, I run 'git bisect good' (or bad). Oops - I don't yet know if this commit should be marked good or bad, yet that's what I've done.
Can I undo the 'git bisect good' command, or make git forget the result of it, and go back and run the test for that commit?
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
From the git-bisect documentation:
> Bisect log and bisect replay
> After having marked revisions as good or bad, issue the following command to show what has been done so far: > $ git bisect log
>If you discover that you made a mistake in specifying the status of a revision, you can save the output of this command to a file, edit it to remove the incorrect entries, and then issue the following commands to return to a corrected state: > $ git bisect reset $ git bisect replay that-file
Solution 2 - Git
You can output a record of what was done using
$ git bisect log > bisect.log
Open that file in an editor and edit/remove the faulty line. Then you can replay it with
$ git bisect replay bisect.log
This is documented in git help bisect
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