Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > 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... > > [...] > > This happens because a//b rewrites the history, i.e. the parents are > edited. IMHO it makes no sense at all to show the parents in such a case, > since they are bogus. Or rather it has no sense to _repeat_ rewritten parent the number of times the commit has parents originally. Compare git-log and git-rev-list results: 1010:jnareb@roke:~/git> git rev-list --full-history --header --parents \ --max-count=2 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e -- a//b 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e d0d0d0bd3c2c4591ffbc292d7e082e8ad8f2057f tree cdafa88fa4ed7fcc7bb6c64d62e2d7c4d3b65e42 parent fc54a9c30ccad3fde5890d2c0ca2e2acc0848fbc parent 9e30dd7c0ecc9f10372f31539d0122db97418353 parent c4b83e618f1df7d8ecc9392fa40e5bebccbe6b5a parent 660265909fc178581ef327076716dfd3550e6e7b parent b28858bf65d4fd6d8bb070865518ec43817fe7f3 author Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> 1115335014 -0700 committer Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> 1115335014 -0700 Octopus merge of the following five patches. Update git-apply-patch-script for symbolic links. Make git-prune-script executable again. Do not write out new index if nothing has changed. diff-cache shows differences for unmerged paths without --cache. Update diff engine for symlinks stored in the cache. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> d0d0d0bd3c2c4591ffbc292d7e082e8ad8f2057f 54c26fb9d0cdff94c7717125d0a222b324bfea8a [...] 1014:jnareb@roke:~/git> PAGER= git log --full-history --parents \ --max-count=2 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e -- a//b commit 211232bae64bcc60bbf5d1b5e5b2344c22ed767e d0d0d0bd3c2c4591ffbc292d7e082e8ad8f2057f d0d0d0bd3c2c4591ffbc292d7e082e8ad8f2057f d0d0d0bd3c2c4591ffbc292d7e082e8ad8f2057f d0d0d0bd3c2c4591ffbc292d7e082e8ad8f2057f d0d0d0bd3c2c4591ffbc292d7e082e8ad8f2057f Merge: d0d0d0b... d0d0d0b... d0d0d0b... d0d0d0b... d0d0d0b... Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu May 5 16:16:54 2005 -0700 Octopus merge of the following five patches. Update git-apply-patch-script for symbolic links. Make git-prune-script executable again. Do not write out new index if nothing has changed. diff-cache shows differences for unmerged paths without --cache. Update diff engine for symlinks stored in the cache. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> commit d0d0d0bd3c2c4591ffbc292d7e082e8ad8f2057f 54c26fb9d0cdff94c7717125d0a222b324bfea8a 54c26fb9d0cdff94c7717125d0a222b324bfea8a [...] -- Jakub Narebski Poland - 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