Andrey Hsiao <andreyhs...@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear list:
>
> Just encountered the --merge option for git log.
>
> In the man page, it has the following explanation:
> - After a failed merge, show refs that touch files having a conflict
> and don't exist on all heads to merge.
git log --merge [options] -- $paths
is roughly the same as
git log [options] HEAD...MERGE_HEAD -- $paths'
where $paths' is $paths limited to those with conflicts. You can
further think of that as a rough equivalent of
git log [options] ^X HEAD MERGE_HEAD -- $paths'
where X is the merge base between the tips of these two branches:
X---o---o---o---H
\
o---o---o---M
And the commits among these ('o's, H and M in the picture), the ones
that change any of the $paths' are shown. If you further limit the
output (e.g. with -n<n>, or --since=<time>), you may not see all of
them, of course.
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