Re: If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit [Was: Re: how to show log for only one branch]
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> One thing to remember, when you merge the destination into which you
> merge will be HEAD^1, so by just following that you can get junio's view
> of his branch as he made it.
>
> This is doesn't terminate properly, sucks the performance of your
> machine and generally should be erased rather than run; but you get the
> idea:
>
> let n=0
> while git-show --pretty=one -s "next~$n"
> do
> let "n=$n+1"
> done | less
>
> -apw
>
This is not a right way to view a branch track in git, see Junio's explanation