From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 22:12:31 GMT Subject: Re: identical hashes on two branches, but holes in git log Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20150519214719.GA12732@frolo.macqel> Philippe De Muyter writes: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:01:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Philippe De Muyter 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 > > This shows the commits in my branch starting from the most recent common point, > thus my commits, but I see differences in the files not explained by my commits, > but by the fact that many older commits (between v3.13 and v3.14) are missing on > my branch, but still in both branches I have a commit called v3.14 with the > same hash. Is that normal ? Sorry, cannot parse. Neither of the above would show files, so just about the place where you start talking about "I see differences in the files", you lost me.