Ok, now I grok it. Indeed these "substantial changes" by mistake undid another large change. So the net result was zero, which git was smart enough to figure out, and therefore these two changes +D and -D cancelled one another and none of them were shown. Thanks a lot! Dov On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 21:57, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > --full-history indeed made the missing commits show up! So why was the > > commit pruned? It contains some substantial source changes... > > I suspect that these "substantial changes" did not make any contribution > to the end result. Read > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/89400/focus=90659 > > These days, the --post-simplify option implemented in that discussion > thread is called --simplify-merges or something, I think. -- 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