From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:09:00 GMT
Subject: Re: How to find and analyze bad merges?
Message-ID: <7vr4yduher.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <jgdjd1$5mn$1@dough.gmane.org>

"norbert.nemec" <norbert.nemec@native-instruments.de> writes:

>> Bisect?
>
> This is not the point: My colleague knew exactly which commit
> contained the bugfix. The trouble was finding out why this bugfix
> disappeared even though everything indicated that it was cleanly
> merged into the current branch.

Then again "Bisect?"

I wasn't and I am not suggesting to use Bisect to find the original fix. I
was suggesting to use Bisect to find the _merge_ you were looking for.