Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 > > might show you the topic or pull request that introduced code "foo". But > I quite often forget to add "-m", and get confused that it doesn't > return any results. Yes. I agree that --first-parent should imply -m when combined with diff options like -p, --raw, etc. I am not sure if -m should kick in without any diff options, though. Doesn't it have side effects? Thanks.
