Re: Why do some commits not appear in "git log"?

--full-history indeed made the missing commits show up! So why was the
commit pruned? It contains some substantial source changes as may be
seen by the following commands:

1. Commit history for entire project:

git log --full-history --pretty=oneline  -5 --abbrev-commit   | ~/scripts/crop

e86d3b1 Merge remote-tracking ...
05e7103 Made the system conver...
2de7375 Fixed compilation unde...
b520873 Error handling!!
73110bd New Group manager for ...

2. Diff of a single file between two commits show that 05e7103
contains a substantial change for the file.

git diff 05e7103 2de7375 Apps/SolarJet/Project/qt/SysScripts/init.py | wc

    105     389    5336

3. Full history of the file includes 05e7103

git log --full-history --pretty=oneline  -5 --abbrev-commit Apps/SolarJet/Project/qt/SysScripts/init.py  | ~/scripts/crop

05e7103 Made the system conver...
84a60b7 avoid CarouselSimulati...
c40df74 git-svn-id: svn://swte...
0bdf4b6 Group manager for mult...
0536a0d git-svn-id: svn://swte...

4. But the default "pruned" history of the file does not contain 05e7103

git log  --pretty=oneline  -5 --abbrev-commit Apps/SolarJet/Project/qt/SysScripts/init.py  | ~/scripts/crop

84a60b7 avoid CarouselSimulati...
c40df74 git-svn-id: svn://swte...
0536a0d git-svn-id: svn://swte...
a720b61 Add full line wafer pr...
08b366b git-svn-id: svn://swte...

5. Here is the project graph:

git log --graph --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline -20 | ~/scripts/crop

*   e86d3b1 Merge remote-track...
|\
| * 026fec8 Stop all the jobs ...
| * 84a60b7 avoid CarouselSimu...
| * c40df74 git-svn-id: svn://...
| * fee6808 git-svn-id: svn://...
| * 047e697 Automatic Theta Ca...
* | 05e7103 Made the system co...
* | 2de7375 Fixed compilation ...
* | b520873 Error handling!!
* | 73110bd New Group manager ...
* |   dce3ae9 Merge branch 'Mu...
|\ \
| * \   25dff3c Merge branch '...

Finally, a few more questions. Is it possible to make gitk use the
--full-history option when running 'gitk file'? Is there any
configuration flag that always turns on "full history"?

Thanks!
Dov

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 18:56, Michael Witten [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 15:38, Dov Grobgeld [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit | head -20

Try `--full-history' maybe? Also, rather than `head -20', you can
limit the output directly with `-20':

 git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --full-history -20

It's hard to know what's going on in your particular example; perhaps
give us the output of `git log' when using the `--graph' option.