From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:57:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Why do some commits not appear in "git log"?
Message-ID: <7vipqeb9wg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA++fsGGhzVkXTPLui+DfTFcjve7w80Kud4RxC0p=5AenOcBSDw@mail.gmail.com>

Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> writes:

> --full-history indeed made the missing commits show up! So why was the
> commit pruned? It contains some substantial source changes...

I suspect that these "substantial changes" did not make any contribution
to the end result. Read

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/89400/focus=90659

These days, the --post-simplify option implemented in that discussion
thread is called --simplify-merges or something, I think.