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Subject: Re: Why can't I use git-bisect to find the first *good* commit?
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>> What is the point is finding manually a commit *on the same branch* when
>> the tool can do that for you?

> Seems to me that this is trying to cram two questions into one:
>
> A) where did branch foo diverge from branch bar and
> B) which commit between that ancestor and bar did things break.

To find the answer to A, I generally just do this (using an alias):

git log --graph --oneline --all

It takes at most a couple of seconds... hardly what I'd call a manual process.