From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:51:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --only-merges flag to display only merge commits.
Message-ID: <20080409145108.GY11574@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0804091605460.10660@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:06:57PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > I just wanted to see the list of merges since the last tag in a repo
> > where we have 1000+ commits and about 20 merges and found that there is
> > no easy way to do so.
> 
> I usually did something like this:
> 
> git log -1 $(git rev-list --parents | sed -n "s/ .* .*//p")

If you mean:

git log -1 $(git rev-list --parents HEAD | sed -n "s/ .* .*//p")

then it'll show only the first merge, --only-merges shows each merge.
(While of course you can still use -1 or tag.. or so.)