I heartily recommend using `tig blame` from https://jonas.github.io/tig/ https://jonas.github.io/tig/ -- it allows you to interactively navigate the blame histo

I heartily recommend using `tig blame` from https://jonas.github.io/tig/ https://jonas.github.io/tig/ -- it allows you to interactively navigate the blame history; navigate to the line of interest, press one key to see details of the commit that last touched it. Not the right one? Press `,` to move to before that commit. Moving past bulk changes and finding the actual origin of a line of code is usually a breeze with this tool. I don't use tig much otherwise, but for this purpose I've not yet seen a better (and faster!) tool.