--simplify-merges returns too many references

I thought I understood the intent of the various history simplification switches, but maybe I am still confused. In git.git, I see three commits which touch stripspace.c: $ git log --oneline -- builtin/stripspace.c 497215d Update documentation for stripspace c2857fb stripspace: fix outdated

Re: --simplify-merges returns too many references

Phil Hord phil.h...@gmail.com writes: But with --simplify-merges, I see _more_ commits. $ git log --simplify-merges --oneline -- builtin/stripspace.c 634392b Add 'contrib/subtree/' from commit ... 497215d Update documentation for stripspace c2857fb stripspace: fix outdated