On 1/18/2021 1:06 PM, Aiyee Bee wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I want to implement a feature in git, and I'm looking for some help. > > I wanted to add a history-simplification option to rev-list so that it > doesn't simplify away any irrelevant commits if they have multiple > relevant _children_, i.e. when they are the point where two relevant > histories diverge. > > Basically the effect I want for --show-forkpoints (named like --show-pulls): > http://ix.io/2Ms6 I think what you really want is --full-history --simplify-merges [1]. This will show the merges that "fork" the history into parallel tracks where at least two of them contain interesting commits. Note that this option is expensive to compute, as it walks every reachable commit before returning a single result. Thanks, -Stolee [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.txt---simplify-merges
