From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:56:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Am able to delete a file with no trace in the log
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Thinking more about it, we always did have fairly good workarounds for the 
> "we optimized away the history too aggressively" (ie the original 
> --full-history, and then the newer and nicer --simplify-merges).

This is offtopic, but there is a rather funny hidden feature in that
"newer and nicer" option.

    $ git log --simplify-merges -- no-no-no-such-path-ever-existed

will lists the merges that do not have any common ancestors.

I do not know where it comes from, or if it is worth fixing.