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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Cc: Francis Stephens <francisstephens@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Confusing git log --- First time bug submission please advise on best practices
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 17:10:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n4cjk83.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAH6HY8unuytrKpEA-eisojUkG=X4D+o+vQDO5bC5YCSmusoHw@mail.gmail.com> (Vincent van Ravesteijn's message of "Thu, 6 Feb 2014 17:08:16 +0100")

Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> writes:

> The commits that are in the log for master and which are not in the
> log for originssh/master are merged in at "6833fd4 (HEAD, master);
> Completed merge".
>
> As "git log" can only present the commits in a linear way, it shows
> the commits from the ancentry of both parents of HEAD in a reverse
> chronological order. This means that the commits from the two
> ancestries are mixed and commits that are shown after each other don't
> have to be parent and child. See the documentation of "git log" and
> the section "Commit Ordering": "By default, the commits are shown in
> reverse chronological order."

git log --graph can help with getting a better picture.

-- 
David Kastrup

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-06 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06 14:02 Confusing git log --- First time bug submission please advise on best practices Francis Stephens
2014-02-06 16:08 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
2014-02-06 16:10   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-02-07  9:43     ` Francis Stephens
2014-02-07 10:26       ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-07 11:37         ` demerphq
2014-02-08 13:50           ` [PATCH] log: add --show-linear-break to help see non-linear history Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-17 12:51             ` [PATCH v2] log: add --nonlinear-barrier " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-17 19:09               ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-17 20:32               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-18 11:46                 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-18 19:08                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-20  5:44               ` [PATCH v3 1/2] object.h: centralize object flag allocation Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-20  5:44                 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] log: add --show-linear-break to help see non-linear history Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-20 19:15                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-21  1:02                     ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-25 13:23                 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] object.h: centralize object flag allocation Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-25 13:23                   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] log: add --show-linear-break to help see non-linear history Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-25 22:30                     ` Junio C Hamano

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