On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Chris Hostetter <[email protected]> wrote:
> It may only create a single commit, but from the perspective of people > viewing master, it "adds" every commit that was on the jira/SOLR-445 > branch to the master branch -- generating an metric ass-ton of > emails among other things, but more importantly it pollutes history > with a lot of intermediate crap > It doesn't pollute history, it *is* history. If you want to only view the history of the "main line" of development (ie each merge is just the single merge commit), then use --first-parent in your log command.
