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Extension Bisect are in Command Palette not Help menu
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gregvanl committed Dec 23, 2020
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The true power of VS Code is its extensions: theme extensions add pretty colors and icons, language extensions provide IntelliSense and enable code navigation, debugger extensions enable you to drill into bugs. Sometimes it isn't obvious if an issue is caused by an extension, and if so, by which extension. Until today, you needed to disable all extensions and then one by one re-enable extensions to find a problematic extension. This process is now getting easy with a new feature called **extension bisect**. It uses the binary search algorithm to quickly identify an extension that causes trouble. In essence, it disables half your extensions and asks you to check for the issue you were seeing. If the issue is gone, the bad extension must have been in the list of disabled extensions, not in the list of currently enabled extensions. This process is repeated until only a single extension is left.

You can start extension bisect via the **Help** > **Start Extension Bisect** command. It then guides you through the process of repeatedly disabling and re-enabling extensions. After each reload, you will be prompted to confirm if the issue is still there.
You can start extension bisect via the **Help: Start Extension Bisect** command from the Command Palette (`kb(workbench.action.showCommands)`). It then guides you through the process of repeatedly disabling and re-enabling extensions. After each reload, you will be prompted to confirm if the issue is still there.

![Start Extension Bisect](images/1_52/ext_bisect1.png)

![Extension Bisect prompting during process](images/1_52/ext_bisect2.png)

Extension bisect will repeatedly ask you to check if the issue is reproducing or not. You can always abort via **Stop Bisect** and if you dismiss the bisect notification, you can continue via the **Help** > **Continue Extension Bisect** command.
Extension bisect will repeatedly ask you to check if the issue is reproducing or not. You can always abort via **Stop Bisect** and if you dismiss the bisect notification, you can continue via the **Help: Continue Extension Bisect** command.

![Extension Bisect done](images/1_52/ext_bisect3.png)

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