diff --git a/bin/bisect-go-rclone.sh b/bin/bisect-go-rclone.sh
index 8dffee301..9a15d1188 100755
--- a/bin/bisect-go-rclone.sh
+++ b/bin/bisect-go-rclone.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ set -e
 
 # Compile the go version
 cd src
-./make.bash
+./make.bash || exit 125
 
 # Make sure we are using it
 source ~/bin/use-go1.11
diff --git a/bin/bisect-rclone.sh b/bin/bisect-rclone.sh
index c48ab2da9..ed24c0228 100755
--- a/bin/bisect-rclone.sh
+++ b/bin/bisect-rclone.sh
@@ -1,15 +1,33 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Example script for git-bisect -run
+# Example script for git bisect run
+#
+# Copy this file into /tmp say before running as it will be
+# overwritten by the bisect as it is checked in.
+#
+# Change the test below to find out whether rclone is working or not
+#
 # Run from the project root
+#
+# git bisect start
+# git checkout master
+# git bisect bad
+# git checkout v1.41 (or whatever is the first good one)
+# git bisect good
+# git bisect run /tmp/bisect-rclone.sh
 
 set -e
 
-# Compile
-make
+# Compile notifying git on compile failure
+make || exit 125
 rclone version
 
-# Test whatever it is that is going wrong
-truncate -s 10M /tmp/10M
-rclone delete azure:rclone-test1/10M || true
-rclone --retries 1 copyto -vv /tmp/10M azure:rclone-test1/10M --azureblob-upload-cutoff 1M
+# Test whatever it is that is going wrong - exit with non zero exit code on failure
+# commented out examples follow
+
+# truncate -s 10M /tmp/10M
+# rclone delete azure:rclone-test1/10M || true
+# rclone --retries 1 copyto -vv /tmp/10M azure:rclone-test1/10M --azureblob-upload-cutoff 1M
+
+# rm -f "/tmp/tests's.docx" || true
+# rclone -vv --retries 1 copy "drive:test/tests's.docx" /tmp