Re: merge summaries

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, 18 May 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

quoted

I never quite understood what they're for--do they add any information
not already available in the history?  If not, and if people still find
them helpful anyway, then I dunno, it looks like a sign of some sort of
failure of our history display tools.

I don't think they add much in the case of a graphical viewer, but for 
"git log", it does make it look nicer..

Especially if you do "git log --first-parent" ;-).