From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 23:34:05 GMT
Subject: Re: merge summaries
Message-ID: <7vhcq94sgi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705181611520.3890@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Fri, 18 May 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> 
>> I never quite understood what they're for--do they add any information
>> not already available in the history?  If not, and if people still find
>> them helpful anyway, then I dunno, it looks like a sign of some sort of
>> failure of our history display tools.
>
> I don't think they add much in the case of a graphical viewer, but for 
> "git log", it does make it look nicer..

Especially if you do "git log --first-parent" ;-).