Re: [PATCH] Add --only-merges flag to display only merge commits.

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:06:57PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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I just wanted to see the list of merges since the last tag in a repo
where we have 1000+ commits and about 20 merges and found that there is
no easy way to do so.

I usually did something like this:

git log -1 $(git rev-list --parents | sed -n "s/ .* .*//p")

If you mean:

git log -1 $(git rev-list --parents HEAD | sed -n "s/ .* .*//p")

then it'll show only the first merge, --only-merges shows each merge.
(While of course you can still use -1 or tag.. or so.)