Git bisect exercise

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Motivation

The motivation for this exercise is to be able to do archaeology with Git on a source code where the bug is difficult to see visually. Finding the offending commit is often more than half the debugging.

Background

The script get_pi.py approximates pi using terms of the Nilakantha series. It should produce 3.141519 but it does not. The script broke at some point and produces 3.57361 using the last commit:

$ python get_pi.py

3.573618985595276

At some point within the 500 first commits, an error was introduced. The only thing we know is that the first commit worked correctly.

Your task

Use git bisect to find the commit which broke the computation.

Bonus exercise

Write a script that checks for a correct result and use git bisect run to find the offending commit automatically.