# are X-like merges bad?

1 messages from 2011-11-16 to 2011-11-16. Participants: Ilya Basin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28944

## Ilya Basin, 2011-11-16 08:20

Subject: are X-like merges bad?
Message-ID: <972241491.20111116122009@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/972241491.20111116122009%40gmail.com

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When you merge branch A with branch B, you can then fast forward
branch B to the merge commit. git merge even does this automatically.
Such commits have 2 parents and 2 children.

On both branches 'git log --first-parent' shows the same history
before the merge.

Is it true that in this case you can't filter commits by branch name
in 'git log'?

I'm thinking of using 'git merge --no-ff' since now.

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