From: Michael Witten Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:56:29 GMT Subject: Re: Why do some commits not appear in "git log"? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 15:38, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit | head -20 Try `--full-history' maybe? Also, rather than `head -20', you can limit the output directly with `-20': git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --full-history -20 It's hard to know what's going on in your particular example; perhaps give us the output of `git log' when using the `--graph' option.