Re: How to find and analyze bad merges?

> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Norbert Nemec
> <norbert.nemec@native-instruments.de>  wrote:
>> To be yet more precise:
>>
>> My complaint is that you need this kind of sledge-hammer solutions to
>> analyze the situation. I, as an semi-expert with git did manage to find the
>> problem without even having to resort to bisect or manually redoing the
>> merge. My complaint is about the perspective of the medium-experienced user
>> who is completely puzzled by the fact that a
>> "git log<filename>" silently skips the critical merge commit.
>
> Do the -c --cc or -m flags for git log help in this case?
> They alter the way merge diffs are presented, as described under Diff Formatting
> in the git-log(1)  man page.