You usually don't want to use both arguments at the same time as that will hide the whole merges (both merge commits and merged commits). You can however use o

You usually don't want to use both arguments at the same time as that will hide the whole merges (both merge commits and merged commits). You can however use one of those arguments to choose what you want to filter out, which is very handy. FWIW, `--max-parents=1` has an alias `--no-merges`.