Finding a bug can be a long frustrating process. Those are the ones I tend to write about. But occasionally the stars (and the tools) align and it goes quickly and easily. I figured I'd write about one of those for a change.
I released (internally) a new version of gSuneido. Users soon found a bug that hadn't been in the previous version. It had been about two weeks and roughly 40 commits since the last version.
Thank goodness for version control. It's long ago, thankfully, but there was a time when we programmed without any version control. The bad old days. Of course, my memory was better back then.
The bug was easy to recreate, which made it easy to manually bisect my Git versions and find the commit that introduced the bug. A good reminder of the efficiency of binary search.
The offending commit only changed a single file, so that simplified things. There were a lot of changes within that file, but they were independent. So I could again manually bisect the changes and quickly find the one with the bug.
And to top it off, the fix was easy.
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