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Re: Commit change disappeared from repository

From
Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 24, 2020, 13:21 UTC
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On 4/23/2020 3:22 PM, Renato Botelho wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> I'm sending it here to devel list because after asking around at IRC and
> also to friends we ended up with no reasonable explanation about what
> happened, and it lead me to consider maybe it could be a bug (!?!?)

This is a common confusion with Git history. The best description of what is going on is [1], in my opinion.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/git-log-history-simplification

There are other history options that will likely show the error. Specifically, run "git log --full-history --simplify-merges <path>" to do a full graph traversal and reduce the output as much as possible.

99% of these cases are due to someone resolving a merge conflict incorrectly, and you'll find that merge with the "git log" command above.

Thanks, -Stolee

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