Re: Rebasing or merging? [was: Re: 01/03: gnu: wxwidgets: Add libxtst to inputs.]

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Josselin,

Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm not a 'git log' expert myself, but intuitively like you, I'd expect
>> the --no-merges one to be useful to hide merge commits!  The doc seems
>> to confirm that:
>>
>>      --no-merges
>>          Do not print commits with more than one parent. This is
>>          exactly the same as --max-parents=1.
>>
>> Thanks for finding that option.
>
> I used these kinds of options for the last core-updates merge, and this
> one only hides the merge commits themselves, not the merged commits.
> For that, you need to use --first-parent.

Good to know, thanks for sharing!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim