From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:06:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --only-merges flag to display only merge commits.
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0804091605460.10660@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080408203648.GS11574@genesis.frugalware.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:

> This is the opposite of git-rev-list --no-merges: It will hide commits 
> with single or no parent.
> 
> It is useful if a maintainer has a lot of commits between tags and 
> usually each feature is developed in its own topic branch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> ---
> 
> I just wanted to see the list of merges since the last tag in a repo
> where we have 1000+ commits and about 20 merges and found that there is
> no easy way to do so.

I usually did something like this:

git log -1 $(git rev-list --parents | sed -n "s/ .* .*//p")

Hth,
Dscho