Sent this too early. Meant to supply a link. Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > Hi, > > If you use gitk and are working in a git repo with lots of merges between > branches, it can be overwhelming to see all the commits in branches which > have been merged in (eg, the commits in the 4.7 and active branches when > trying to look at the frameworks branch). > > The way to see commits that were actually made on the frameworks branch, > and not commits that were merged in, is to use gitk --first-parent. It is > documented in the git-log man page, because gitk accepts most standard git > commands for dealing with refs. > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-log.html > > If you don't use gitk and don't understand git see: > > http://lostechies.com/joshuaflanagan/2010/09/03/use-gitk-to-understand- git/ All the best, Steve.