I've always used "divide and conquer" which is a cliche for a reason.
Bifurcate is commonly used by Indian colleagues, and perhaps programmers are familiar with the term, but it's not something used by US business people in my experience.
If one has pretty good automated tests, it’s possible to automate and pinpoint which commit has the last working version and which commit had the test failure by using git bisect and using the test results as input.
Bifurcate is commonly used by Indian colleagues, and perhaps programmers are familiar with the term, but it's not something used by US business people in my experience.