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		lloydatkinson 89 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: At the end you use `git bisect` 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 89 days ago | [–]

Create a .bisect directory and stick a gitignore inside it that ignores the folder. Or, add .bisect/ to a global gitignore file.

1718627440 89 days ago | [–]

You can checkout the bisect script commit in another directoy. Or use $git bisect run $(git show ...).

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