Function: magit-bisect-start

magit-bisect-start is an interactive and natively compiled function defined in magit-bisect.el.

Signature

(magit-bisect-start BAD GOOD ARGS)

Documentation

Start a bisect session.

Bisecting a bug means to find the commit that introduced it. This command starts such a bisect session by asking for a known good and a known bad commit. To move the session forward use the other actions from the bisect transient command (B (magit-bisect)).

Key Bindings

This command is not in any keymaps.

Source Code

;; Defined in /nix/store/irvbdy0zra0dn8fpd008f32x5ix6qm5v-emacs-packages-deps/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/magit-20261005.508/magit-bisect.el
;;;###autoload
(defun magit-bisect-start (bad good args)
  "Start a bisect session.

Bisecting a bug means to find the commit that introduced it.
This command starts such a bisect session by asking for a known
good and a known bad commit.  To move the session forward use the
other actions from the bisect transient command (\
\\<magit-status-mode-map>\\[magit-bisect])."
  (interactive (if (magit-bisect-in-progress-p)
                   (user-error "Already bisecting")
                 (magit-bisect-start-read-args)))
  (magit-bisect-start--assert bad good args)
  (magit-repository-local-set 'bisect--first-parent
                              (transient-arg-value "--first-parent" args))
  (magit-git-bisect "start" (list args bad good) t))