Re: Emacs git repo mangled

[Gregory Heytings]

> > + Depending on what you want to do, it can be helpful to use the option
> > + '--first-parent' with 'git bisect', which makes bisect ignore commits
> > + coming into a branch from merges.
>
> I'd rather say 'git start --first-parent'. There's no other bisect 
> subcommand with that option.

Doing that is wrong, alas.  Limiting bisection to first parents will often 
produce a wrong result.  TRT here is to follow Linus' advice, to which I 
pointed in my other post, namely to manually mark the last commit of the 
eglot branch before it was merged as "good".