Re: git apologia

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:36:41 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Actually, it turns out neither this nor HEAD~n is what I want.  What I
> > want is to display information about commits N..M where N and M are
> > ordinal numbers from the linear "git log" output.  And waddaya know?
> > HEAD~n etc. seem to _skip_ merge-commits,
> 
> Just like bzr does with its ordinal numbers.

No, bzr shows the merge-commit on the mainline, with a normal
(i.e. non-dotted) number.  Only the commits on the branch from which
we merged are skipped by default by "bzr log".