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From: Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git log reliability
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:38:22 +0000
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:56:17 +0530, Prasad Karmarkar <prasad.s.karmarkar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> I have been hearing from my Release Management that git log is not
> reliable. Is it so ?
> Is there a known instance where Git log has missed out on commits ?
> 
> Any information about this would be really helpful

Are you talking about git skipping commits due to history simplification (read
the corresponding section in the git-log man page)?

Also, what for does your release management use git log? Maybe there is
a better way to do what you need to do.