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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: David Barr <davidbarr@google.com>
Cc: Norbert Nemec <norbert.nemec@native-instruments.de>,
	Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to find and analyze bad merges?
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:03:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202120340.GA25190@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFfmPPMc1V97OPHyrZp+p4YUek1c6fCncyj0s1YU9xjxQBCsDA@mail.gmail.com>

David Barr wrote:

> Do the -c --cc or -m flags for git log help in this case?
> They alter the way merge diffs are presented, as described under Diff Formatting
> in the git-log(1)  man page.

I suspect Norbert was running into history simplification, so the --full-history
flag would be the relevant one.

See the thread [1] for a few relevant side-notes.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/188904

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-02  8:10 How to find and analyze bad merges? norbert.nemec
2012-02-02  8:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-02  9:01   ` norbert.nemec
2012-02-02 20:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-02 10:05 ` norbert.nemec
     [not found]   ` <87haz97c2k.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
2012-02-02 11:17     ` Norbert Nemec
2012-02-02 11:41       ` David Barr
2012-02-02 12:03         ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-02-02 12:16           ` norbert.nemec
2012-02-02 15:09             ` Neal Groothuis
2012-02-02 12:10         ` norbert.nemec

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