This is insane. I have reset that bisect and tried again using "fixed" and "broken" instead of "new" and "old" and, again, the bisect had the following: 1fdb926974695d3dbc05a429bafa266fdd16510e is the first fixed commit commit 1fdb926974695d3dbc05a429bafa266fdd16510e Author: Hans de Goede