From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 16:01:10 GMT
Subject: Re: identical hashes on two branches, but holes in git log
Message-ID: <xmqq617oa75l.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150519132958.GA21130@frolo.macqel>

Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macq.eu> writes:

> Trying to understand, I have eventually done "git log" on my branch and
> on v3.15 with the following commands :
>
> git log v3.15 --full-history --decorate=short | grep '^commit' > /tmp/3.15.commits
> git log --full-history --decorate=short | grep '^commit' > /tmp/mybranch.commits

Either

    git log --oneline v3.15..HEAD ;# show what I have not in theirs

or

    gitk v3.15...HEAD ;# show our differences graphically

may give you a better picture than what you did, which was to
artificially flatten the topology and lose the crucial information
as to which commit is the parents of which other commit.