git vs hg commit counts?

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 17:18 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > $ git log --since=1-year-ago -- MAINTAINERS | \
> > 	grep -P "^commit [0-9a-f]{40,40}$"  | wc -l
> > 514
> > $ hg log --template="commit {node}\n" --date -365 -- MAINTAINERS  | \
> > 	grep -P "^commit [0-9a-f]{40,40}$" | wc -l
> > 601
> > Anyone have any understanding why?
> We simplify a merge history by discarding one branch when the merge result
> matches one of the parents.

Thanks Junio.

> Does "hg" know how to do that as well?

I don't know.

I was hoping to get equivalent results though.

Anyone know how?