ideally your branch commits would usually build too; but admittedly, I tend to bisect by hand, following the --first-parent. I suppose if the set of commits we

ideally your branch commits would usually build too; but admittedly, I tend to bisect by hand, following the --first-parent. I suppose if the set of commits were truly huge that might be more of an issue. And of course, there are people that have hacked their way to success here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5652323 https://stackoverflow.com/a/5652323, but that sounds a little fragile.