show commits contributing to diff between two commits

Question

I'd like to get a summary of changes between two commits, using the commit messages. I found this thread, which almost does what I'm looking for:

List commits between 2 commit hashes in git

but the --ancestry-path tag doesn't show the commits that contribute to a merge commit in that chain. I'd like something similar, but follows the merge commits back to the common ancestor.

Does this not answer your question? https://stackoverflow.com/q/1191282/989920 — evolutionxbox, Jun 30 '21 at 18:31
Please edit your title to ask a clear question. I'm not sure how to read that as a sentence. — isherwood, Jun 30 '21 at 18:40
@LeGEC I suppose that should have been obvious...Make it an answer and I'll mark it accepted — dmagree, Jul 01 '21 at 18:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '21 at 19:41

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It looks like you simply want to view <commitA>..<commitB> range, without using --ancestry-path :

git log <commitA>..<commitB>
git log --oneline --graph <commitA>..<commitB>

answered Jul 01 '21 at 19:41

LeGEC

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