From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:47:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] making --first-parent imply -m
Message-ID: <20200728164727.GA2650574@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20200728163617.GA2649887@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:36:18PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> For some projects, it's useful to walk the first parent history, looking
> at each merge commit as a normal commit introducing all of the changes
> no its side branch. E.g.:
> 
>   git log --first-parent -m -Sfoo -p

One thing I should have mentioned, since the subject may be misleading:
this is only for git-log, not for plumbing like rev-list (which anyway
would need the option in diff-tree). The commits themselves are clear
that this is the case, but the cover letter was not. :)

-Peff