Is there a way to see git history by the date changes were merged to a branch?

A typical git history shows changes based on when the change was made rather than when it was merged. Below is a typical example where a change merged recently is lower in the history because the original change is older.

Change Made       Change Merged
last month        last month
2 months ago      2 months ago
a year ago        yesterday

This makes it very difficult to look at the history of a file and see what recent changes may be causing problems. What I would like to see instead, is a history that traces the branch and shows changes as they are made to the given branch.

Ideally the output would be ordered as:

Change Made       Change Merged
a year ago        yesterday
last month        last month
2 months ago      2 months ago

I have looked at the history in gitlab, used git log, git extensions, git lens, git log --topo-order.
The concept of --topo-order makes me believe what I want is theoretically possible, but the output of --topo-order wasn’t very useful.