Yes, responding to the title. In particular in my rich web application if I am in the process of merging & deploying the branch to the production environment, s

Yes, responding to the title. In particular in my rich web application if I am in the process of merging & deploying the branch to the production environment, sometimes the automated tests fail and I use a bisect to narrow down the offending commit. Having good commit messages in general helps with debugging in this scenario. I’m surprised you haven’t found excellent tools to migrate from SVN to Git, considering how popular these VCS systems are. I once worked in a company whose source tree originally predated version control. There I found an entire module that appeared to be dead code and I wanted to determine how it became dead. I did a bisect and landed on an 8 year commit that was the very first commit in the version-controlled tree. Yikes. So I guess I’ll never know how that module became dead.