On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:36:18PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > For some projects, it's useful to walk the first parent history, looking > at each merge commit as a normal commit introducing all of the changes > no its side branch. E.g.: > > git log --first-parent -m -Sfoo -p One thing I should have mentioned, since the subject may be misleading: this is only for git-log, not for plumbing like rev-list (which anyway would need the option in diff-tree). The commits themselves are clear that this is the case, but the cover letter was not. :) -Peff
