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app robust-git-bisect

Robust Git Bisect provides an alternative to git bisect which is robust against errors during the search

2 releases

0.1.1 Oct 24, 2020
0.1.0 Oct 24, 2020

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Apache-2.0

120KB
2.5K SLoC

Robust Git Bisect

Robust Git Bisect provides an alternative to git bisect which is robust against errors during the search. In other words, if the comparison function sometimes returns an incorrect result, the search in this project will still converge on the correct solution.

This is adapted from the multiplicative weights algorithm in "Noisy binary search and its applications" by Karp and Kleinberg, with adjustments to make it deterministic and then extended to support directed acyclic graphs.

Usage

To use the git bisect replacement, install with cargo install robust-git-bisect, and then ~/.cargo/bin/robust-git-bisect $start_commit $end_commit $command_to_test_commit

If you're looking for a library version of this, see the robust-binary-search crate which this is based on.

Performance

robust-git-bisect shows improved performance compared with git bisect (higher accuracy with fewer iterations):

Method Iterations Accuracy
robust-git-bisect with 0.99 target 29.6558 99.5392%
robust-git-bisect with 0.9 target 26.1828 98.8950%
git bisect 16.1907 31.7972%
git bisect with tests repeated 35.0465 86.6359%
git bisect repeated 72.3674 86.1751%

This test is run over the git git repo from e83c516331 to 54e85e7af1, simulating 9c3592cf3c as the bad commit, with a test that returns an incorrect result 5% of the time. See benchmark.rs for details.

Dependencies

~3–11MB
~97K SLoC