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

Dov Grobgeld [off-list ref] writes:

--full-history indeed made the missing commits show up! So why was the
commit pruned? It contains some substantial source changes...

I suspect that these "substantial changes" did not make any contribution
to the end result. Read

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/89400/focus=90659

These days, the --post-simplify option implemented in that discussion
thread is called --simplify-merges or something, I think.