Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@xxxxxxx> writes: > git dies after calling the following command on the git repo: > > $ git log f623ca1c...b9cfa4e9 --simplify-by-decoration --first-parent I wouldn't be surprised anything random happens when --first-parent is used together with simplify_merges(); the function needs full analysis of all commits in the specified range, and first-parent traversal specifically tells us not to descend into other parents. It might not be a bad idea to forbid this combination when the command line options are parsed. What information were you trying to get out of the above command? -- 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