Give an option to hide merge commits in a branch view in the UI

[nicholasjng]

Similarly to GitHub metrics I guess. We switched our transaction model to a merge of an ephemeral branch, which creates merge commits on success. When going through a branch history, these commits clutter the view, so it would be great to have a filtered view where we can focus on the actual additions.

cc @maxmynter

[talSofer]

Thanks for opening this request @nicholasjng! Are you using lakectl or the lakeFS UI to view the commit history?

If you had a --no-merges flag as part of the lakectl log command, would that solve your case?

[nicholasjng]

I'm viewing it in the UI. --no-merges sounds like a good idea (assuming it means everything with maximum 1 parent, like in git log), for a UI view of commits, should not be difficult to filter by that condition, then.

[arielshaqed]

Also the same filtering is equally possible in the UI.