diff --git a/bisect.c b/bisect.c
index 2c14f4d616..115cf5fa41 100644
--- a/bisect.c
+++ b/bisect.c
@@ -521,14 +521,34 @@ static char *join_sha1_array_hex(struct sha1_array *array, char delim)
 	return strbuf_detach(&joined_hexs, NULL);
 }
 
+/*
+ * In this function, passing a not NULL skipped_first is very special.
+ * It means that we want to know if the first commit in the list is
+ * skipped because we will want to test a commit away from it if it is
+ * indeed skipped.
+ * So if the first commit is skipped, we cannot take the shortcut to
+ * just "return list" when we find the first non skipped commit, we
+ * have to return a fully filtered list.
+ *
+ * We use (*skipped_first == -1) to mean "it has been found that the
+ * first commit is not skipped". In this case *skipped_first is set back
+ * to 0 just before the function returns.
+ */
 struct commit_list *filter_skipped(struct commit_list *list,
 				   struct commit_list **tried,
-				   int show_all)
+				   int show_all,
+				   int *count,
+				   int *skipped_first)
 {
 	struct commit_list *filtered = NULL, **f = &filtered;
 
 	*tried = NULL;
 
+	if (skipped_first)
+		*skipped_first = 0;
+	if (count)
+		*count = 0;
+
 	if (!skipped_revs.sha1_nr)
 		return list;
 
@@ -537,19 +557,31 @@ struct commit_list *filter_skipped(struct commit_list *list,
 		list->next = NULL;
 		if (0 <= lookup_sha1_array(&skipped_revs,
 					   list->item->object.sha1)) {
+			if (skipped_first && !*skipped_first)
+				*skipped_first = 1;
 			/* Move current to tried list */
 			*tried = list;
 			tried = &list->next;
 		} else {
-			if (!show_all)
-				return list;
+			if (!show_all) {
+				if (!skipped_first || !*skipped_first)
+					return list;
+			} else if (skipped_first && !*skipped_first) {
+				/* This means we know it's not skipped */
+				*skipped_first = -1;
+			}
 			/* Move current to filtered list */
 			*f = list;
 			f = &list->next;
+			if (count)
+				(*count)++;
 		}
 		list = next;
 	}
 
+	if (skipped_first && *skipped_first == -1)
+		*skipped_first = 0;
+
 	return filtered;
 }
 
@@ -865,7 +897,7 @@ int bisect_next_all(const char *prefix)
 
 	revs.commits = find_bisection(revs.commits, &reaches, &all,
 				       !!skipped_revs.sha1_nr);
-	revs.commits = filter_skipped(revs.commits, &tried, 0);
+	revs.commits = filter_skipped(revs.commits, &tried, 0, NULL, NULL);
 
 	if (!revs.commits) {
 		/*
diff --git a/bisect.h b/bisect.h
index fb744fdb79..82f8fc1910 100644
--- a/bisect.h
+++ b/bisect.h
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ extern struct commit_list *find_bisection(struct commit_list *list,
 
 extern struct commit_list *filter_skipped(struct commit_list *list,
 					  struct commit_list **tried,
-					  int show_all);
+					  int show_all,
+					  int *count,
+					  int *skipped_first);
 
 extern void print_commit_list(struct commit_list *list,
 			      const char *format_cur,
diff --git a/builtin-rev-list.c b/builtin-rev-list.c
index 31ea5f4aac..4ba1c12e0b 100644
--- a/builtin-rev-list.c
+++ b/builtin-rev-list.c
@@ -262,7 +262,9 @@ int show_bisect_vars(struct rev_list_info *info, int reaches, int all)
 	if (!revs->commits && !(flags & BISECT_SHOW_TRIED))
 		return 1;
 
-	revs->commits = filter_skipped(revs->commits, &tried, flags & BISECT_SHOW_ALL);
+	revs->commits = filter_skipped(revs->commits, &tried,
+				       flags & BISECT_SHOW_ALL,
+				       NULL, NULL);
 
 	/*
 	 * revs->commits can reach "reaches" commits among