The result given by "git log --first-parent" ('next' version) is unexpected to me. % git rev-parse origin/next 4eddac518225621c3e4f7285beb879d2b4bad38a % git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --first-parent origin/next^..origin/next 4eddac5... Merge branch 'master' into next 1f8115b... Merge branch 'maint' ca1c991... Merge branch 'sg/merge-options' (early part) 31a3c6b... Merge branch 'db/learn-HEAD' a064ac1... Merge branch 'jn/webfeed' d576c45... Merge branch 'cc/help' ca1a5ee... Merge branch 'dm/cherry-pick-s' 4c4d3ac... Merge branch 'lt/dirmatch-optim' c5445fe... compat-util: avoid macro redefinition warning eb120e6... compat/fopen.c: avoid clobbering the system defined fopen macro bac59f1... Documentation: bisect: add a few "git bisect run" examples d84ae0d... Documentation/config.txt: Add git-gui options 921177f... Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch" examples c904bf3... Be more careful with objects directory permissions on clone I asked for the log between one commit before the tip of "origin/next" and the tip of the branch, following only the first-parent links. v1.5.5 is not broken and shows the expected result: % ~/git-v1.5.5/bin/git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --first-parent origin/next^..origin/next 4eddac5... Merge branch 'master' into next -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally - A spam blocker that actually works. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html