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Re:We should revisit literate programming in the agent era by necovek on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:04AM (#47319554)
Certainly, but merges are treated differently by default, and getting to this sort of output would require "custom" tooling for things like "git log".

Whereas bzr just did the expected thing.

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Re:We should revisit literate programming in the agent era by 1718627440 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @07:45AM (#47321932)
You can select whether you want the diff to the first or the second parent, which is the difference between collapsing and expanding merges. You can also completely collapse merges by showing first-parent-history.

Or I do not understand what you mean with "the expected thing".

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Re:We should revisit literate programming in the agent era by eru on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @09:41PM (#47330913)
Yes, `git log --first-parent` has been a godsend for coping with our team's messy non-cleaned up history.
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