Subject: Re: how to show log for only one branch

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:21:46 +0100

Liu Yubao wrote:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> [...]  It is also a bad
>> example because I can answer that question with this command
>> line:
>> 
>>      git log --grep='^Merge .* into next$' next
>> 
>> and while it is a perfectly valid answer, I know it would leave
>> you feeling somewhat cheated.
>> 
> smart trick, but if the logs aren't consistent enough it's hard to
> grep them out.

Well, commit message for merges are generated automatically. And if you set
merge.summary=true in repo config (or your config), then you have shortlog
in merge commit message by default...
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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