How to get merge log for branch?

Question

git loglists all commits from all branches that have been merged into HEAD. I want to get a list of merges, so I can see which branches were merged into this, and when.

How can I get this information? I am looking for something other than “run gitk and look at the graph”, since I know this, but for very large stories with many branches, it does not scale very well. The text result for a text query is probably perfect.

Answer 1

With modern git (if you have version 1.6.4 or newer you have this), you can simply use

$ git log --merges

, --first-parent:

$ git log --merges --first-parent

Answer 2

, git :

$ git log --no-walk $(git rev-list --parents HEAD | sed -n "s/ .* .*//p")

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