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You may be able to scan the list of changes in that PR to discover what you are looking for.
If the list of changes is too big or nothing is jumping out as a possible culprit, then consider using [`git bisect`] on the clippy repo itself (which will require building clippy).

To bisect a clippy warning, you can upgrade the warning to an error:

```sh
cargo bisect-rustc --start=1.84.0 --end=1.85.0 -c clippy -- clippy -- --forbid clippy::useless_conversion
```

[`rust-clippy`]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/
[`git bisect`]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect