From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:02:21 GMT
Subject: Re: merge noise in git-shortlog output
Message-ID: <7vfyshg8ia.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200509062144.j86Li04N010540@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com>

"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> writes:

> This is valid (I really did make all those commits, they happen every
> time I merge the "linus" branch into my release branch, which I like to
> do quite often so I'm working near the bleeding edge), but it doesn't
> seem all that useful in the "short" log output[1]

Are there interesting merges and uninteresting automerges?  Are
all merges more or less uninteresting?  If merges are not
interesting:

    $ git log --no-merges --pretty=short $rev $argu $ments | git shortlog