I thought I understood the intent of the various history
simplification switches, but maybe I am still confused.
In git.git, I see three commits which touch stripspace.c:
$ git log --oneline -- builtin/stripspace.c
497215d Update documentation for stripspace
c2857fb stripspace: fix outdated comment
81b50f3 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
With --full-history and also with --dense, I see the same three commits:
$ git log --full-history --oneline -- builtin/stripspace.c
497215d Update documentation for stripspace
c2857fb stripspace: fix outdated comment
81b50f3 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
$ git log --dense --oneline -- builtin/stripspace.c
497215d Update documentation for stripspace
c2857fb stripspace: fix outdated comment
81b50f3 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
But with --simplify-merges, I see _more_ commits.
$ git log --simplify-merges --oneline -- builtin/stripspace.c
634392b Add 'contrib/subtree/' from commit ...
497215d Update documentation for stripspace
c2857fb stripspace: fix outdated comment
81b50f3 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
610f043 Import branch 'git-p4' of git://repo.or.cz/fast-export
b4d2b04 Merge git-gui
0a8f4f0 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/gitweb
98e031f Merge git-tools repository under "tools" subdirectory
5569bf9 Do a cross-project merge of Paul Mackerras' gitk visualizer
None of the "new" commits touches this file. The man page suggests
that simplify-merges should result in fewer commits than full-history.
" --simplify-merges
Additional option to --full-history to remove some needless merges from
the resulting history, as there are no selected commits contributing to
this merge."
Am I confused or is git?
Phil
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