Re: How to find and analyze bad merges?

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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Norbert Nemec
<norbert.nemec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To be yet more precise:
>
> My complaint is that you need this kind of sledge-hammer solutions to
> analyze the situation. I, as an semi-expert with git did manage to find the
> problem without even having to resort to bisect or manually redoing the
> merge. My complaint is about the perspective of the medium-experienced user
> who is completely puzzled by the fact that a
> "git log <filename>" silently skips the critical merge commit.

Do the -c --cc or -m flags for git log help in this case?
They alter the way merge diffs are presented, as described under Diff Formatting
in the git-log(1)  man page.
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David Barr
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