Re: [PATCH] Add --only-merges flag to display only merge commits.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 9, 2008, 15:00 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0804091659130.10660@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080409145108.GY11574@genesis.frugalware.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:06:57PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > 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")
> 
> If you mean:
> 
> git log -1 $(git rev-list --parents HEAD | sed -n "s/ .* .*//p")

Yes, I meant "something like" that...

> then it'll show only the first merge, --only-merges shows each merge. 
> (While of course you can still use -1 or tag.. or so.)

Yep, I wrote "-1", but what I actually meant was "--no-walk".

Sorry, Dscho