# \#bisect

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## [Is it fine to download artifacts from Github for bisecting changes in Julia?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-fine-to-download-artifacts-from-github-for-bisecting-changes-in-julia/109159)

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**Author:** [@nsajko](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nsajko)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 2, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-fine-to-download-artifacts-from-github-for-bisecting-changes-in-julia/109159 "2024-02-02T00:14:24Z")

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Regarding bisecting changes in the Julia implementation (usually on the master branch), I feel like people usually build each commit locally while bisecting? Is there a good reason for doing that, instead of just downloa…

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## [How to properly bisect Julia's git history in search of bugs?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-properly-bisect-julias-git-history-in-search-of-bugs/75193)

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**Author:** [@Krastanov](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Krastanov)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 26, 2022, 4:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-properly-bisect-julias-git-history-in-search-of-bugs/75193 "2022-01-26T04:06:57Z")

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I noticed that current nightly is slower to import packages than 1.7.1. Julia is easy enough to compile from scratch, so I tried to use git bisect to find when that happened. Naively I tried bisecting between v1.7.1 and m…