"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: > The user question was, given a commit 'J', and a future commit 'H' > (typically a branch tip such as 'master'), find those commits that are > : > A) merges > B) on the first parent DAG chain of the future commit 'H' > C) children of the given commit 'J' The answer then is that there is no such single step operation. In the picture, if D or E were a merge from a side branch that does not have anything to do with 'J', "log --first-parent --merges" will not exclude it (i.e. C won't be fulfilled by --first-parent --merges).