It appears that "log --graph" output has a bug at its tail end. $ git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --graph 9d88058^..1af8bca M 1af8bca... Merge branch 'maint' |\ | M 008442f... Merge branch 'maint-1.5.4' into maint | |\ | * e77b0b5... git-am: fix typo in usage message | * 74190d2... doc/git-daemon: s/uploadarchive/uploadarch/ M 9d88058... Merge branch 'ar/add-unreadable' |\ * dad25e4... Add a config option to ignore errors for git-add * 8959743... Add a test for git-add --ignore-errors * 984b83e... Add --ignore-errors to git-add to allow it to sk... * 7ae02a3... Extend interface of add_files_to_cache to allow ... * 960b8ad... Make the exit code of add_file_to_index actually... Ideally, I think the output should look like this: M 1af8bca... Merge branch 'maint' |\ | M 008442f... Merge branch 'maint-1.5.4' into maint | |\ | * e77b0b5... git-am: fix typo in usage message | * 74190d2... doc/git-daemon: s/uploadarchive/uploadarch/ M 9d88058... Merge branch 'ar/add-unreadable' |\ | * dad25e4... Add a config option to ignore errors for git-add | * 8959743... Add a test for git-add --ignore-errors | * 984b83e... Add --ignore-errors to git-add to allow it to sk... | * 7ae02a3... Extend interface of add_files_to_cache to allow ... | * 960b8ad... Make the exit code of add_file_to_index actually... This is purely cosmetic, but because --graph is only about the cosmetics, we may want to do something about it. Thoughts? -- 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