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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-log shows first parent and repeated last for octopus
 merge
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:35:32 -0700
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Jakub Narebski wrote:
> When trying to find how many merges and how many octopus merges (merges with
> more than two parents) are in git.git repository I have encountered the
> following strange output of git-log:

Maybe the following will find what you're looking for:

git-rev-list master --parents \
	|sed -e 's/[0-9a-f]\{40\}//' -e 's/ [0-9a-f]\{40\}/*/g' \
	|sort \
	|uniq -c