Depending how you end bisecting, result/report is either one liner or dumps commit information: $ git bisect bad 77c044d8d66f9f9bebdb805853409e920e537d59 is the first bad commit commit 77c044d8d66f9f9bebdb805853409e920e537d59 Author: XXXX Date: Tue Jan 22 09:24:02 2019 -0500 ISSUE-11626 Bad fish in the sea of comment :040000 040000 ef2280aa5f7e0c23f8750c43a0bf05c0a9639fe3 f63bea979784cade7dffd653d939f665ff6a53b7 M clustering :040000 040000 6f4667c819106f6e9ddbb902253862212a2558f5 4d8c4dc85872c0665eb77957a6fd69c49c173188 M triton :040000 040000 0400075b3d5f7cb9e68683b25b8ede93fb1b293b 35ba4c831c4834f9ce612e394621dde382bc72f1 M web-common vs git bisect good 3a9388eef42efc87c78ce22158d55e69a278b4eb is the first bad commit git --version git version 2.14.1