Hi Stefan, On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:55 PM, Harald Nordgren > <haraldnordgren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When ran with '--merges-only', git bisect will only look at merge commits -- commits with 2 or more parents or the initial commit. > > There has been quite some talk on the mailing list, e.g. > https://public-inbox.org/git/20160427204551.GB4613@virgo.localdomain/ > which suggests a --first-parent mode instead. I like that mode, but I would love to have *both*. And from what I see, it should be relatively easy to add the --first-parent mode on top of Harald's patches. > For certain histories these are the same, but merges-only is more > restrictive for back-and-forth-cross merges. You mean merges-only tests *more* in back-and-forth-cross-merges scenarios? Ciao, Dscho
