When trying to find how many merges and how many octopus merges (merges with more than two parents) are in git.git repository I have encountered the following strange output of git-log: 1000:jnareb@roke:~/git> git log --parents --full-history --max-count=1 \ 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e -- a//b commit 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e <last parent repeated> Merge: d0d0d0b... d0d0d0b... d0d0d0b... d0d0d0b... d0d0d0b... [...] while git-show gives correct output 1005:jnareb@roke:~/git> git show 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e commit 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e Merge: fc54a9c... 9e30dd7... c4b83e6... 6602659... b28858b... [...] Same with git-rev-list, also shows correct output: 1005:jnareb@roke:~/git> git rev-list --header --parents --max-count=1 \ 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e [...] tree cdafa88fa4ed7fcc7bb6c64d62e2d7c4d3b65e42 parent fc54a9c30ccad3fde5890d2c0ca2e2acc0848fbc parent 9e30dd7c0ecc9f10372f31539d0122db97418353 parent c4b83e618f1df7d8ecc9392fa40e5bebccbe6b5a parent 660265909fc178581ef327076716dfd3550e6e7b parent b28858bf65d4fd6d8bb070865518ec43817fe7f3 [...] 1008:jnareb@roke:~/git> git --version git version 1.4.2.1 -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html