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Asked: 2026-06-14T21:49:25+00:00

I have just started using Git on Windows. I am hosting on BitBucket and

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I have just started using Git on Windows. I am hosting on BitBucket and using TortoiseGit as the windows client.

Things are moving in the right directon, but I am clueless at a point. I was working on the master branch, and at one point created a new branch. Then I continued working on the new branch and kept committing, pushing. Finally when I was done, I merged this new branch(codetidy) back into master.

Now when I do ‘Show Log’ and select ‘All Branches’, I just get a straight line in the graph. There is no information of from when a branch was taken out, and when it merged back. Please hep me find this information.

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  1. Editorial Team

    That’s probably because your merge was a fast-forward merge, which means that there weren’t any commits made to master in between the time when codetidy was created and when it was merged back in – so Git helpfully just moves master to point to the same commit (because it already has the exact same file contents as what a merge would look like), rather than creating an unnecessary merge commit.

    If you don’t want this behavior, you’d need to force Git to create a separate merge commit – on the command line, this is done with git merge --no-ff. In TortoiseGit, it’s done via checking the “No Fast Forward” checkbox in the merge window (see this previous StackOverflow answer for a screenshot).

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