On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:32:12PM +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Here's what I get when I start committing on master, then switch to a > branch foo and finally merge foo into master: > * changeset: ae68dbe:master > |\ user: Uwe Brauer > | | date: Tue Aug 20 16:25:53 2019 +0200 > | | summary: 1.2.1/1.1 > | | > | * changeset: c00bb5d:master^2 > | | user: Uwe Brauer > | | date: Tue Aug 20 16:25:53 2019 +0200 > | | summary: 1.2.1 > | | > | * changeset: 54c9230:master^2~1 > | | user: Uwe Brauer > | | date: Tue Aug 20 16:25:53 2019 +0200 > | | summary: 1.2 > | | > * | changeset: da0712f:master~1 > |/ user: Uwe Brauer > | date: Tue Aug 20 16:25:53 2019 +0200 > | summary: 1.1 > | > * changeset: 8eb999d:master~2 > user: Uwe Brauer > date: Tue Aug 20 16:25:53 2019 +0200 > summary: 1 > > That looks odd. What exactly do you think looks odd? That "master^2~1", perhaps? That's how commits on different branches are named, see 'man gitrevisions', and 'git name-rev' works as designed.
