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Challenge: Track down problems

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Challenge: Track down problems

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] It's time for another challenge assignment. In this challenge, I want you to track down a problem using the techniques that we've learned in this chapter. In the main branch in the file index.html, which is our homepage at or around line 314, there's some text that says, also known as cloud master. Originally, that said AKA. And so the question that you want to answer is, which commit changed AKA to also known as? Now, this isn't really a problem or a bug per se, but it's a stand in for one. Let's imagine perhaps that your manager or someone else is interested in finding out at what point did this change get made, who made it, and why? I want you to try to find that answer three different ways. First, try to find it using the Blame tool. Then after you've done that, try to find it using Bisect and for Bisect, use the entire history of commits. We don't have a lot of commits. A real project would have hundreds or even thousands of commits. We have a very…

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