Hi, I don't think that's intended. When running "git log --no-merges" in a shallow clone, and the last commit in the history is a merge commit, "git log --no-merges" still shows it. I've just hit this in a test running on a --depth=50 clone on Travis-CI on git-multimail: $ git cat-file -p c3c1cc25b27d448e9ef67b265a11be8735ff2df4 tree c341dd60c4b639eac1d6dcc3caffb5d7201c2245 parent b312e3f90dfef73ba0288999981694b09affdf6b parent 842ac6e867885af041499723dc46f2197705204c author Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> 1441031540 +0200 committer Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> 1441031540 +0200 Merge remote-tracking branch 'edward/utf-8-email-support4' $ git log --no-merges c3c1cc25b27d448e9ef67b265a11be8735ff2df4 commit c3c1cc25b27d448e9ef67b265a11be8735ff2df4 (grafted) Author: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon Aug 31 16:32:20 2015 +0200 Merge remote-tracking branch 'edward/utf-8-email-support4' I guess Git counts the number of parents that are actually in the repository, but it could check the number of "parents" field in the object (cat-file -p was still able to show 2). Thanks, -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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