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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> By the way, can one choose one of parents to be shown in ''for the
> commit'' mode, or it is only combined (-c, --cc) or all (-m)?

Not without using "diff $C^$N $C", no, I do not think so, and that form
will be two-tree case so you won't get a log.

When you treat all parents as equals, there is no good definition of a
single patch for the commit for a merge.